Performing Arts

Dance

Selected Purdue Databases for Dance
 

Music Index Online. http://www.hppmusicindex.com/brs/hpplogin.jsp

 Selected Free Internet Resources

 American Ballroom Companion. A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html .

Artslynx/Dance. A comprehensive gateway site for finding websites on dance.

The Ballet.com. Introductory pages with short articles on the dancer, techniques, and the history of ballet together with daily news updates from international sources. http://www.the-ballet.com/.

Culture Kiosque: Dance. International dance events with news, commentary, and information on dance in North America and Europe. http://www.culturekiosque.com/dance/.

Cyberdance: Ballet on the Net. More than 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. http://www.cyberdance.org/

Dance Insider Online. Dance performance reviews often posted the day after a show, some with video clips. http://www.danceinsider.com.

Dance Links at Dancer.com. Includes links to dance companies of all kinds, performance listings, newsgroups, dance publications, dance organizations, dance schools and dancers. http://www.dancer.com/dance-links/.

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory. Links to more than 30 styles of dance from Aztec to zydeko. http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance/.

Voice of Dance.http://www.voiceofdance.com/. A comprehensive list of links to dance related material.

Glossarist.com - Dance:Glossaries and Dance Dictionaries. Links to more than 30 glossaries of dance, including ballet, flamenco, swing, Irish, and other types of dance. http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/arts-culture/dance.asp.

Off Jazz Dance World. I nformation about jazz and tap dance, including terminology in French and English and jazz and tap variations on vidéo clips online.http://www.offjazz.com/ .

Dance Notation Bureau. This Bureau works to preserve dances using Labonotation, which is described on this site. Includes a Web library and list of links to other notation sites. http://www.dancenotation.org/.

Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The largest archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance, including major collections of papers, letters, and artifacts from dance greats, including Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Nuryev, Agnes De Mille, and others. http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/dan.html.

 

International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. Information on dance medicine publications and issues. http://www.iadms.org.

 

Music

• GramoFile: Gramofile is a database of over 25,000 classical music reviews from the magazine Gramophone. Users can search by composer, orchestra, title, conductor, record label, catalogue number, reviewer, or keyword and view results sorted by date.

Theatre

• McCoy´s Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
• Yale School of Drama

Other Resources

• Academic Search Premier: General information from journals, magazines, and newspapers in all subject areas.
• Directory of Published Proceedings: DoPP provides information on locating and procuring published proceedings from conferences in many fields, including sciences, medicine, ecology, and humanities.
• Eighteenth Century Collections online:Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century, 1701-1800.
• Index Islamicus:Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance:Iter Bibliography indexes books and journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400 - 1700 A.D.) Over 1,346 journals are indexed.