Background Information

Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier is an excellent place to start any research project. It is a general database that covers thousands of journals from the mid-1970s to the present. It includes popular and scholarly articles.

This database can be used to find thousands of articles on theater, dance, and the performing arts.

JSTOR is an online archive of older journals and magazines and can be used to find theater criticism and other articles about the performing arts.

The RDE database is a growing compilation of research and research articles in dance.

Web Resources

Start here for an easy and useful overview of dance information on the Web. Artlynx editor Richard Finkelstein has created a comprehensive gateway site for finding Web sites on dance. This meta site provides 28 categories of dance links. Categories unique to this site include "Dancer Health" and "This Month in Dance History." The site suffers from a few too many dead links in some areas, for example within the section on "Funding Sources." The list of links to professional, scholarly, educational, and discipline-based organizations is useful for academic dance programs. Other categories of note include "African Dance" and "University Listings."

Included here are feature articles, reviews, several interviews, a small photo gallery, and selections from the best of their forum discussions. Forums, on many dance styles, have more than 75,000 postings.

Culture Kiosque covers international cultural events with news, commentary, and information on the arts, culture, and entertainment in North America and Europe. This appealing site contains calendars of featured and seasonal events. The selected articles and book and performance reviews are worth a visit to this site. The primary writer on dance for Culture Kiosk is Patricia Boccadoro, who also writes for The Guardian and Dancing Times. Articles are available in English, French, and German.

A collection of more than 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet can be found here. Visit this site to view long lists of links on events, auditions, competitions, research, FAQs, technology, newsgroups, chat sites, articles, reviews, magazines, summer programs, colleges, and schools.

A well-designed and easy-to-use comprehensive site with lists of ballet and contemporary dance companies, choreographic centers, dance presenters and performance listings, organizations, funding resources, schools, bulletin boards, mailing lists, newsgroups, magazines and other information resources. This site was developed by The Dance Centre, a not-for-profit society serving individual members and professional dance companies since 1986 in Vancouver, Canada.

Dance.net promotes community forums for students, dancers, instructors, coaches, choreographers, and studio owners. Community-building features in their software include the ability to comment on almost any message, image and video uploading, member-created polls and feature articles, jobs listings, moderators, and more.

The "Flash Reviews" on this site are one of its most popular features. These dance performance reviews are often posted the day after a show. Many of the past reviews include links to video clips. Search by keyword "video" to find clips. See also the "Insider Web Picks" and "Vignettes" by dance critic Tobi Tobias. Dance Insider Online offers a guide to summer schools and other useful advice for dancers and dance students. Readers may subscribe to its free e-mail newsletter.

Dance Links is perhaps the best known and most highly linked to dance site on the Internet. Online since before 1994, it has been worked on at various times by dance videographer Amy Reusch, James White, and Jon Wright. Major categories of links include: Ballet Companies, Modern/Contemporary Dance Companies, More Dance Companies (Flamenco, Tap, Butoh, Multimedia, Jazz, World, etc.), Dance Presenters and Performance Listings, Newsgroups, Dance Publications, Dance FAQs etc., Dance Organizations, Coalitions, etc. Dance Schools, Dancers, Dance Web Indices. Pointe shoe manufacturer Gaynor Minden donates the hosting of the site.

Contains Record sources, textbooks, videos, leader names, websites, etc. about square dances, contra dances, quadrilles, trios, couple mixers, Sicilian circles, line dances, solo dances, no-partner dances, etc.

Voice of Dance is a well-organized and well-designed site with current news, directories, video clips, and an extensive gallery of ballet and modern dance images. It includes references to newspaper reviews with links back to the articles. Its up-to-date performance calendars for selected events in more than 20 North American and European cities is unique.