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This reference tool includes definitions of major ballet terms as well as video demonstrations of some movements.

"An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress ... Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance."

This comprehensive site offers original material, as well as links to many other resources (libraries, publishers, school/studio directories, organizations, software, funding agencies, etc.).

CORD’s purpose is “to encourage scholars in dance to research, publish, and discuss material from all areas of dance.”

A collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. Divided into the following subject categories: companies, education, news and information, people and organizations, and international.

Descriptions of the dance manuscript collections at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Gives description and examples of labanotation, a type of dance notation which uses symbols to capture dance steps. This site includes the DNBulletin as well as a link to DNB publications through Princeton Book Company.

This guide concentrates primarily on George Balanchine's work for the ballet stage. See notes about Balanchine's work for Broadway and films at the end of the list.

This site has links to multiple dance related resources including Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection, the Claire Holt Collection of Indonesian Dance and Related Arts, and Dance in Photographs and Prints.

This not-for-profit organization is dedicated to promoting study, research, discussion, performance, and publication in dance history and related fields. The site provides current information about the society, gives news of forthcoming events, and provid

The website brings together information from various publications on English country dances and tunes from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.