Dance: Websites

"An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another."

"CyberDance is an extensive internet dance database containing thousands of links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet."

An online video network devoted entirely to dance, the channel includes original video programming that illustrates a variety of styles of dance through newscasts, human interest stories, and entertainment.

"The Dance Notation Bureau’s (DNB) mission is to advance the art of dance through the use of a system of notation. DNB does this by creating dance scores using the symbol system called Labanotation. This allows the dances to continue to be performed long after the lifetime of the artist. Dance scores function for dance the same way music scores function for music."

This guide concentrates primarily on George Balanchine's work for the ballet stage.

"Inside this online exhibit view brief performance excerpts spanning from 1930s dance pioneers to today's most exciting artists. All recorded at Jacob's Pillow, this collection is ever-growing with many paths to explore, meaningful connections to discover, and surprises to share."

This site has links to multiple dance related resources including Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection, the Claire Holt Collection of Indonesian Dance and Related Arts, and Dance in Photographs and Prints.

Articles, announcements, reviews...

"Ballet Tucson is a professional company of versatile and beautifully trained artists. Over the years, many of its members have danced professionally with companies of national stature such as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Ballet West, Alvin Ailey, Boston Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem to name just a few. "

"The Latina Dance Theater Project is a collaborative ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who explore through performances--physical, musical, and visual--controversial issues impacting the global community. The Latina Dance Theater "Projects" bring different collaborators together to create performance experiences, forming a new aesthetic in dance-theater reflective of the diverse Latin culture of today."
Based in Los Angeles (CA) and Tucson (AZ).

"O-T-O Dance, Inc., is a flying modern dance company created by Annie Bunker in 1985. O-T-O is the performance wing of the full company, Orts Theatre of Dance, so if you see "Orts" somewhere here, it's still us!"

"ZUZI! is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1998 by Nanette Robinson and Nancy Mellan. This community-based dance organzation supported the idea that everyone can dance regardless of age or ability. To manifest this visionthree interrelated programs were developed: ZUZI! Dance Company, ZUZI School, and ZUZI! Theater. "