General Sites
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This section focuses on sites with generic dance information, offering articles on more than one artist or style. Listed alphabetically, these sites may have an inbuilt search feature.
American Ballet Theatre
http://www.abt.org
The site contains many articles in the library category including choreographers, dancers, repertory works and reviews. It also contains a comprehensive ballet dictionary with Quicktime demonstrations.
Art and Culture network
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/home
This network presents information on ballet and dance artists from modern and post-modern eras, together with links and references to visual arts, music, design and other theatrical arts. Reference is made to Art Movements, with selected terms and vocabulary explanations. Suggested URLs with brief descriptions of the link are also available.
Art and Science of Teaching and Learning Dance
http://www.stanford.edu/group/dance/vintage/resources/essays/teach_learn.html
This site contains a paper written by Joan Walton, linking Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences with dance and raises implications for teaching dance.
Ballet Companies
http://www.balletcompanies.com
This site operates as a springboard to many other sites as well as a search engine in itself. It encompasses over 2000 links to ballet companies, all styles of dance, societies, choreographers, some historical links and notable dancers. Organised by country of origin, the comprehensive titles under the United States heading are accessed under A-Z headings, while other countries have alphabetical lists of contents. The Australian site gives a comprehensive inventory of modern dance companies as well as a source of traditional and historical dance linked to some excellent articles, e.g. From Russia with Love and Monaro Colonial Dancers. (see Australian sites for further information).
Critical Dance
http://www.ballet-dance.com/
This site, although based in the UK has reviews, interviews, forums, features and articles from worldwide dance companies and agencies. It also has a search capability and lists reviews chronologically.
Dance Art
http://www.danceart.com/
This is a site dedicated to be "family friendly" and enable younger students to locate and access good information. It also contains arts-related activities, dance movies and books.
Dance Instruction Manuals
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html
This site traces the development of dance from the Renaissance to the 20th Century with reference to the changes in style, steps and etiquette. Also included are many hyperlinks to sources and references.
Explore Dance
http://exploredance.com/
Explore Dance is a web magazine that attempts an exploration of trends and important ideas which lie at the heart of dance. It contains its own locator as well as Modern dance articles, features on Martha Graham and the Martha Graham Dance Company, including photo essays on her choreography performed by current dancers. Also included are Alvin Ailey and American Dance Theatre.
Free to Dance
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/
Based on the Free to Dance documentary, the site includes biographies of seminal African-American artists, detailed background historical essays and interviews with choreographers, cultural dance historians and dance scholars.
Kennedy Center
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history/
Amongst other related performing arts information, it has biographies of the following; Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Agnes de Mille, Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, Jerome Robbins, and Paul Taylor.
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory, contains an ethnic Dance Style Locator which lists associations, historical and explanatory notes about the style, e.g. Indian Dance, Thai Classical Dance, Morris Dancing and Japanese Okinawan Classical Dance.
Society of Dance History Scholars
http://www.sdhs.org/
The Society of Dance History Scholars has established a very comprehensive directory of online resources including web sites of general interest web sites providing direct electronic access to resources in dance history and web sites relevant to specific periods of dance history and genres
Voice of Dance
http://www.voiceofdance.com
This online resource has bulletin boards for reviews, ideas, chats with dance celebrities, offers a calendar listing for major dance companies around the world, offers quick review excerpts of dance performances and the latest reviews from the arts world.
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