Dance Studies: Home

Overviews

• Dance Studies: the Basics  
• Dance Words
• International Dictionary of Modern Dance
• International Encyclopedia of Dance
• The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
• American Ballet Theatre Online Ballet Dictionary
• Dance Notation Bureau

Streaming Videos

• Black Studies in Video
• BroadwayHD
• Dance in Video
• Digital Theatre Plus
• Ethnographic Video Online
• Films from Kanopy
• Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
• Numeridanse
• OntheBoards.tv
• Opera in video
• PBS Video Collection

• **see also, Finding Videos

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Digital Images

• ARTStor
• Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
• (NYPL) Jerome Robbins Dance Division 
• Diaghilev and the Ballets Russe, 1909-1929: When Art Danced With Music
• Ballet Russe Scenery Collection -  Butler University
• Critical Dance Forum Gallery
• Voice of Dance
• An Invitation to Dance (American Antiquarian Society)

I. (JumboSearch for) Books 

Select Writings by Choreographers, Performers, critics and Theorists at Tisch:

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• • The Routledge dance studies reader
  • Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture
  • I see America dancing: selected readings, 1685-2000.
  • Moving history / dancing cultures: a dance history reader
  • Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism
  • Through eyes a dancer: selected writings
  • The tail of the dragon: new dance, 1976-1982
  • The dance in mind: profiles and reviews 1977-83
  • Going to the dance / Arlene Croce.
  • Terpsichore in sneakers: post-modern dance
  • The Dance anthology / edited by Cobbett Steinberg.
  • Buckle at the ballet: selected criticism / by Richard Buckle. (1940 -75)
  • The Vision of Modern Dance.
  • Afterimages / Arlene Croce. (1966-77)
  • Dance beat: selected views and reviews, 1967-1976 / Deborah Jowitt.
  • Dance as a theatre art; source readings in dance history from 1581 to the present. / Cohen, Selma Jeanne.
  • Looking at the dance. / Edwin Denby; introd. by B. H. Haggin. (1930s - 40s)

 

More browsing options:

Dance --(History, Criticism, Reviews, etc.)

• • Dance -- History
  • Dance -- United States.
  • Dance -- United States -- Reviews.
  • Dance criticism.
  • Dance critics -- Interviews.
  • Dance -- Reviews.

 

Dancers, Choreography, etc.

• • Dancers.
  • Ballet dancers.
  • Dancers -- United States.
  • Choreography.
  • Choreography -- Philosophy. (Movement, Aesthetics of. )
  • Choreography -- United States.

 

Genres such as Modern Dance, Ballet, etc.

• • modern Dance
  • Modern dance -- History.
  • Modern dance -- Philosophy.
  • Modern dance -- United States.
  • Modern dance -- Social aspects
  • Ballet
  • Ballet United States

 

Note:  Libraries Worldwide (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

 

II. Scholarly, Trade Journal and Newspaper Articles 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Performing Arts and Related Subjects

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier (all subjects)
• America: History and Life
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
• Women's Studies International

Additionally:

• Performing Arts Periodicals Database (not in the above group)

 

Dance Journals at Tisch

• • CORD news
  • Dance research journal
  • Dance research
  • Dance Research Journal
  • Ballet Review
  • Dance Magazine
  • Dance Chronicle
  • Contact Quarterly
  • Studies in Dance History (series)

 

D. Magazines, Newspapers

Current:

• Access World News (rich U.S. regional news)
• Factiva (more international coverage)

Historical:

• African American Periodicals (1825-1995)
• American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
• British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
• New York Times Online Archive (1851 - three years before the current date)
• Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
• Times of London (1785 - 1985)
• More