Dance Resources on the Web
- Major Dance Sites Other web sites with extensive lists of dance links.
- Dance Companies
- Dance Schools, Colleges and Universities
- Professional organizations and associations
- Career information
- Dance Research
- Funding
- Electronic Journals
- International Dance
- Local and Regional
- Miscellaneous and Special Interest
- Dance Festivals and Workshops
- Audition and Job Notices
- Dance Discussion Groups
1. Major Dance Sites
Artslynx International Dance Resources
Ballet and Dance Web Ring
criticaldance.com for ballet, modern and all forms of performance dance
CyberDance
Dance Links
Dancer Online
Library of Congress Internet Resources for Music, Theater, and Dance
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
Voice of Dance
2. Dance Companies on the Web
BalletCompanies.com International list of ballet
companies.
Dance Europe International list of companies.
Dance Links: A commercial site, but with lots of useful dance links.
Ballet
Modern Contemporary
More dance companies, Flemenco, Tap, Jazz, World, Liturgical
Seattle Dance Companies
See below
3. Dance Schools, Colleges and Universities
Criticaldance.com click on "Dance Schools"
Dance Schools from Dance Links
University List from ArtsLynx
University List from Dance Links
4. Professional Organizations and Associations
American College Dance Festival Association, ACDFA Sponsors regional and national dance festivals involving college and university dance departments.
ArtsLynx List of Dance Support Organizations
American Dance Therapy Association
CEC Artslink "International arts exchange organization ..."1
Dance Films Association Information on annual film festival and reviews
Dance Notation Bureau General information, discussion group, links to classes
Dance USA Collegial organization of dance companies and presenters. Resources for employment and educational practices in dance
Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, ISTD U.K. based dance examinations board
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, IADMS international group of dance medicine practitioners, dance educators, and dancers.
International Guild of Musicians in Dance
National Association of Schools of Dance, NASD
National Dance Association, NDA
National Dance Council of America U.S. government body on dance.
National Dance Education Organization, NDEO
National Performance Network "The NPN provides support for established and emerging artists in dance, music, theater, performance art, puppetry, and spoken word."
Society for Dance Research Forum for the research of, "the diverse dance interests in the UK."
Society of Dance History Scholars
5. Dance Career Information
Careers in Dance - Overview from the National Dance Teachers Association, NDTA, in England
Dance Therapist career overview from Association of Dance Therapy.
Dancers and Choreographers career overview from Collegegrad.com.
Dancers and Choreographers career overview from the U.S. Dept. of Labor; describes nature of work, working conditions, qualifications, job outlook, salary, etc.
Choreographer career overview from Jobs4U a government sponsored site in the United Kingdom.
What Becomes of Undergraduate Dance Majors? A Study of the Alumni of the Five College Dance Department.
Salary
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wages by Area and Occupation
Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Local Employment Statistics
Cost of Living and Relocation Websites
United States Cities
Cost of Living Comparison Calculator- Compare equivalent salaries based the cost of living in two American cities, the city you are moving from and the city you may be moving to. From Bankrate.com.
Homestore Salary Calculator - Compare the cost of living in several hundred cities throughout the world.Salary Comparison Calculator- Calculate salary equivalents between cities based on local cost of living factors. From Monstermoving.com.
Money: Best Places to Live - Money magazine's annual survey of cities in the United States, with rankings and an interactive search tool to find the best places for you. Cost of living comparison.
International
International salary and cost of living comparisons takes time and money to compile and are therefore valuable. Companies that compile this data charge money for custom reports. As an alternative, try doing a web search for "cost of living" and "country or city name." You may find some material at a travel or government site that will help.
Just Landed Survival information for people who are moving to other countries. Choose a country, select the country "guide" for cost of living and many other resources about relocating.
Transitions Abroad Information on work, study, travel and living an a wide variety of different countries.
6. Dance Research
CORD, Congress on Research in Dance
European Dance Research Information Directory "English-language directory of European institutions and individuals engaged in dance research, history, theory, documentation..."
Institute for Historical Dance Practice Their mission is to, "research, preserve and perform social and theatrical dances of Western Europe between 1450 and 1920." Links to other historical dance sites.
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance, NIPAD Supports, "dance documentation and preservation as an integral and ongoing part of the creation, transmission and performance of dance."
New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalog CATNYP
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division
SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
7. Funding
ArtsLynx List of dance funding resources.
Dance Links List of dance funding resources.
The Foundation Center Requires registration for login and password. Search on "dance." Covers all types of funding organizations.
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Links to all the state arts agencies.
Some Specific Funding Sources
Artist Trust Seattle
Fulbright Student Grants For post Baccalaureate (B.A./B.S.) students. "...the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide."
IIE Passport.org - Institute of International Education Study abroad dirctory for the IEE, a higher education and professional exchange agency. Administers over 200 international exchange programs, including the Fulbright Program.
8. Electronic Journals
"Electronic Journals" are journals, magazines or periodicals published and distributed in electronic format. Some of the links here are true e-journals. Others are publisher web sites which exist primarily to promote subscriptions to their print journals. We've included these if they include sample articles along with items of interest to readers. Newspapers also included.
ArtsJournal.com weekday digest of arts and cultural journalism -- international in scope.
Ballet Alert Online from publisher of Dance View.
Culture Kiosque - Dance European
Dance Current Canadian
Dance Magazine Excerpts from the print publication.
Dance Teacher Excerpts from the print publication.
Seattle Times - Arts and Entertainment
9. International Dance -- Resources and Schools
How to fund it...
European Scholarship Programme for Contemporary Dance
Fulbright Student Grants For post Baccalaureate (B.A./B.S.) students. "...the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide."
IIE Passport.org - Institute of International Education Study abroad dirctory for the IEE, a higher education and professional exchange agency. Administers over 200 international exchange programs, including the Fulbright Program.
International lists
Artslynx International Dance Resources
Balletcompanies.com "...over 3000 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world."
Ballettanz magazine (with some good links to schools, companies, festivals, and more.
Contact Collaborations' Dance Map Classified ads, lists dance activities, centers, and services worldwide.
Europe
Dance Europe Site for Dance Europe magazine. Lists schools, and festivals, job postings.
Dance Web Europe Non-profit organization acting as, "an exchange platform involving dance institutions, artists, producers, companies and festival directors and to initiate projects crossing artistic and national boundaries."
ENICPA, European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts. European festivals, venues, publications, training opportunities and information centres for arts professionals world wide. Search database by country, genre (ballet or contemporary) or category (festival, training opportunities, venues, etc.)
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University
School for New Dance Development Amsterdam
Austria
Impulstanz, Based in Vienna, Austria. Organizes workshops and annual contemporary dance festival. Offers a current events database, newsletter and email list.
Spiral[e] and The Dance/Theatre Project Austria dance company. Dance education and company.
Vienna Dance Studios Viennese dance studio.
Belgium
Contredanse (French Language) Lists schools, auditions, festivals, conferences and more. Brussels.
PARTS, The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios "The school is a joint initiative of the dance company Rosas and the Belgian National Opera De Munt/La Monnaie."
England
Dance Teachers Online "on-line register of dance teachers, available to the public as a membership service for dance teachers, providing a weekly e-mail newsletter, articles about dance teaching, news, bulletin boards, a technical help service, an information resource for research, etc."
Laban Centre Offers undergreaduate, graduate and professional training in dance. Short courses also available. Extensive new facilities with theaters and studios. Funded largely by the Arts Council England with National Lottery funds. London.
Language of Dance Centre "The centre contains one of the largest libraries on Movement Study, Dance Notation and Dance Theory in London, and is the production venue of new dance publications on a regular basis." Information on classes and publications. London
The Place London dance center. London
University of Surrey - Department of Dance Studies Includes the National Resource Centre for Dance .
Finnish Dance Information Centre "provides information about domestic and foreign festivals and events, dance training available in Finland and abroad, and about scholarships to applicants. The calendar of events... provides information about dance perfomances arranged in Finland."
France
ARTOTAL (French Language) Arts information site. This link connects to their dance page. Lists dance companies, festivals and other dance sites in France and beyond.
ladanse.com French & World Dance crossroads website. News, refletions and thought around dance & cultural world...
National Dance Center (CND) (French Language) Centre National de la danse.
Germany
Dance Platform Germany Biannual dance forum. "The Dance Platform Germany considers itself as a forum for presenting recent tendencies in German contemporary dance. ...offers both national and international guests the opportunity to view a plethora of current contemporary dance pieces within a concentrated timeframe. In addition to this, the Platform is also a forum for artists, presenters, representatives from cultural institutions and others working in the dance field to meet and have an exchange with one another."
Leipzig Festival (German Language)
The Sophiensæle (German Language) "One of the most successful production and play places for freely produced contemporary theatres -, dance and music projects in the German-speaking countries." In Berlin.
Tanzfabrik (German Language) School, workshops. Berlin.
Tanzhaus (German Language) School and festival in Dusseldorf.
TanzNetz (German Language)
Tantztheater (German Language)
Ireland
SODA, Stance on Dance Artists "...bringing top professional arts and entertainment personnel from around Ireland to deliver practical dance activities." Varied resources. Lists of Irish dance companies and dance schools.
Italy
RomaEuropa Foundation, arts and culture. (Italian) Dance school and festival. Rome.
Luxemburg
Luxemburg Dance Contemporary dance theater and annual festival.
Sweden
Dansens Hus Dance venue, festival and company. Stockholm.
Rorelsen (Swedish Language) Classes, etc. Malmo.
Switzerland
SiWiC "The Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers (SiWiC) has the objective of promoting professional, national and international dance by enabling intensive training facilities for qualified young choreographers." Zurich.
Tanzhaus - Wasserwerk (German Language) School, workshops. Zurich.
10. Local and Regional
Artist Trust Northwest arts organization
See also: Artists' Assets Artist Trust's Guide to Artist Resources.
The Dance Centre Vancouver, BC
Dancer's Group San Francisco Bay area
On the Boards Contemporary Seattle performance center
Seattle Arts Commission Directory of Arts Organizations address and phone directory
Better Biscuit Dance
3234 S. Ferdinand St.
Seattle, WA. 98118
(206) 722-7983Crispin Spaeth Dance Group
1122 E. Pike St. #1311
Seattle, WA 98122-3918
(206) 324-8109Mary Sheldon Scott/Jarrad Powell Performance
SD Prism Dance Theatre
PO Box 9778 Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 851-7121
University of Wasington Dance Events
11. Miscellaneous and Special Interest
An American Ballroom Companion Dance Instruction Manuals ca. 1490 1920. American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
Dance Empowers Dance therapy, dance and disabilites, dance for older adults, health resources for dancers.
GoTour "A website devoted to touring. Brings together performing artists, venues and audiences." Includes a searchable database of artist-recommended local venues, local guides, local resources recommended by artists and administrators in the community, classifieds for artists to find artistic and production collaborators, services and goods, and other resources. Registration required.
Rendance homepage Renaissance dance.
12. Dance Festivals and Workshops
See International Dance section for European and other Non-US festivals.
Bates Dance Festival contemporary dance festival.
California State University (CSU) Summer Arts
White Mountain Summer Dance Festival
13. Audition and Job Notices
Backstage.com Also see Backstage West : The Performing Arts Weekly in the Cornish Library's newspaper section. Lists jobs for dancers as well as actors.
BayDance.com San Francisco/Bay Area
Dance Europe Magazine, Jobs / Auditions
Professional Dancer - Professional Dancer's Network for the southeast region of the country, but audition postings are from all over.
14. Dance Discussion Groups
DANCE LISTSERVS: (subscription email lists)
American Dance Therapy Association
to subscribe: ListProc@list.umaryland.edu message: subscribe ADTA firstname lastname
to post: adta@list.umaryland.eduCMAPlus (discussion on Laban Movement Analysis)
to subscribe: Mailserv@denison.edu message: subscribe CMAPlus
to post: CMAPLUS@DENISON.EDUDance-Ballet (discussion, mostly with students, including nutrition and technique)
Dance Heritage Coalition (good resource for conference announcements and scholarly discussion)
to subscribe: LISTSERV@LOC.GOV include message: sub Dance-HC
to post: DANCE-HC@LC.GOVDance History Teachers
to subscribe: listproc@lists.fsu.edu message: subscribe dhtdg@lists.fsu.edu your name.
to post: dhtdg@lists.fsu.eduDance Librarians Discussion Group (you don't need to be a librarian)
to subscribe: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU include message: subscribe DLDG
to post: DLDG-L@listserv.indiana.eduDance-Tech (discussion on dance and technology, including, but not limited to computers)
to subscribe: listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu message: subscribe dance-tech firstname lastname
to post: dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.eduInternational and Folkdance Listserv (they put out a monster digest/newsletter)
to subscribe: LISTSERV@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL message: subscribe DANCE-L
to post: DANCE-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL
Web archives http://www.lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0404&L=folkdancLabanTalk (discussion on Labanotation)
to subscribe: listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu message: subscribe LabanTalk Firstname Lastname
to post: LabanTalk@lists.acs.ohio-state.eduPerformance Art Listserve (run out of the NYU Performance Studies program, excellent discussion of PA issues, including dance)
to subscribe: listproc@lists.nyu.edu include message: subscribe Perform-L
to post: perform-l@lists.nyu.eduPopular Culture Association (all aspects of popular culture/ lots of traffic)
to subscribe: LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu message: SUBSCRIBE H-PCAACA firstname lastname, institution
to post: H-PCAACA@msu.eduRenaissance Listserv (runs the gamut between scholars like Julia Sutton and avocational dancers from the Society for Creative Anachronism)
subscribe through their website http://www.rendance.org/list.html
to post: RENDANCE@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA
USENET GROUPS:
alt.arts.ballet (mostly discusses dance as a performance art, participants include dancers, choreographers, teachers, journalists and enthusiasts)
rec.arts.dance (mostly discusses ballroom dance, participants include teachers, dancers and enthusiasts)