An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. Along with dance instruction manuals from history, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories.
Websites - Dance
Arts Alive: Dance (Canada)"Dance lovers, students and teachers: this is where you'll find engaging and interactive educational resources, videos, games, learning tools and a wealth of information designed to build your understanding of and appreciation for dance."
Dance Interactive - Jacob's Pillow"An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today,
plus new illustrated essays."
Dance USAThe national service organization for the professional dance field, Dance/USA is a membership organization currently serving nearly 500 aerial, ballet, contemporary, modern, culturally specific, jazz, and tap companies, dance service and presenting organizations, individuals, and related organizations.
Tap Dance in America"Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media documents, factually and with minimal editorial flourish, twentieth-century tap performance. The collection is searchable by the title, date, and venue of performance; dancer, choreographer, director, producer; and performance medium (film, television, radio, stage, club); as well as by the names of “tap numbers” and tap choreographies. Though the database is not complete in any way, it is the most exhaustive and detailed collection of materials on record. "
Dance NYCDance/NYC's mission is to promote the knowledge, appreciation, practice, and performance of dance in the metropolitan New York City area. It embeds values of equity and inclusion into all aspects of the organization. It works in alliance with Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.
Axis Dance Company"The heart of AXIS is the commissioning, creation, and performance of contemporary dance that is developed through the collaboration of dancers with and without physical disabilities. Our artistic vision to collaborate with high profile choreographers and cutting edge innovative dance makers of our time was an excellent strategy that has resulted in artistically stunning and significant dance works. More than any other company in the United States, AXIS has been at the forefront of the field, building a bridge between contemporary dance, integrated dance, and disability culture."
Dancers' Group"Dancers’ Group promotes the visibility and viability of dance. We serve San Francisco Bay Area artists, the dance community and audiences through programs and services that are as collaborative and innovative as the creative process itself. In response to the needs of its constituents, Dancers’ Group has evolved to fulfill a dual function as a service organization and as a presenter of performance opportunities that maximize the visibility of dance in the Bay Area."
Robert Moses' KinFounded in 1995, Robert Moses' Kin is considered by many to be one of the most prolific and exciting new contemporary dance companies to emerge nationally in the past decade. The company's mission is to produce work which speaks to what is specific and unique in human nature. Robert Moses' Kin uses movement as the medium through which race, class, culture and gender are used to voice the existence of our greater potential and unfulfilled possibilities.
Smuin Ballet"Smuin pushes the boundaries of contemporary ballet within a distinctly American style, combining classical ballet training, technique, and artistry with uncommon physicality and expression. Smuin offers audiences an experience of ballet that is entertaining, evocative, and original."
