Dance

Interactive resource designed to bring dance to the Web and make it accessible to everyone. Dover Publications has graciously allowed the use of 170 terms from the Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, which are then demonstrated by ABT Company dancers.

Website of the National Museum of Dance & Hall of Fame, the only museum in the nation dedicated to American professional dance. The Museum houses a collection of photographs, videos, artifacts, costumes, biographies and archives.

A guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, providing information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits.

A non-profit alliance of institutions committed to documenting and preserving the history of dance.

An organization dedicated to preserving choreographed works by creating dance scores using a notation system.

"An international organization of dance scholars, educators, and artists that aims to strengthen the visibility and increase the reach of dance as embodied practice, creative endeavor and intellectual discipline." This organization was formed in 2017 as a merger of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD, founded 1969) and the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS, founded 1978).

Dance instruction manuals, ca. 1490-1920. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Production information and drop images from the Butler Ballet's valuable collection of scenery and costumes coming from the famed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

An illustrated compendium by Robert M. Keller, featuring images from a 17th-century series of volumes of English country dances.

Digitized photographs of dance at the New York Public Library.

A searchable gallery of over 5,000 items from the collection of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the world's largest and most comprehensive archive devoted to the documentation of dance.

Online archive of images from this collection, which contains roughly 2,000 original drawings, paintings, photographs and pieces of memorabilia that date from ca. 1913 to ca. 1945. The collection is arranged by subject and format into sixteen groups, numbered 1964.009 to 1964.024. Various media and sizes are represented. The categories by subject include: Isadora Duncan; Loie Fuller; Vaslav Nijinsky; Anna Pavlova; Ruth St. Denis; other dancers; decor and costume designs for ballets; other figure and costume studies; illustrations and graphic design; miscellaneous drawings and paintings; historic dance costumes; printed pictures and clippings; photographic prints; portraits; and works by other artists in various media.

A collection of streaming film and video dance clips.

Part of The New York Public Library's Online Exhibition Archive, this site features images, biographical information, and an essay about Nijinksy.