Research Guides (LibGuides): Dance: Butler Library Resources

Databases for Dance

Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference materials.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance Full Text This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and contains more than 450 full-text titles, including more than 140 full-text journals, and more than 300 full-text books & monographs.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to full-text academic electronic journals in various disciplines including economics and finance, political science, history, literature, anthropology, mathematics, sociology, statistics, and education.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times (1851-2013) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Oxford Dictionary of Dance This link opens in a new window
This dictionary covers all aspects of the diverse dance world from classical ballet to modern, from flamenco to hip-hop, from tap to South Asian dance forms and includes detailed entries on technical terms, steps, styles, works, and countries, in addition to many biographies of dancers, choreographers, and companies.
The International Encyclopedia of Dance This link opens in a new window
With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, this encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
Visible Body Websuite This link opens in a new window
Visible Body is a group of online programs covering anatomy and physiology through interactive 3D models, animations, images, and quizzes.
After clicking the access URL, click the "Don't have Account? Sign Up" link to register for a personal user account. After signing up for a personal account, login to Visual Body with credentials you set up during the registration.

ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Grove Music Online provides information about the lives of composers and performers; musical styles, periods, terms, and genres; musical instruments; music printing and publishing; world musics; popular music; and other music-related topics.
Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to the full text of hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and U.S. and international newspapers. Company financial, country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information, and accounting information can also be accessed.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts for over 330 journals designed for professional educators. Selected full-text to 250 journals.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides article citations and abstracts from 3500 international music journals and other scholarly works including books, dissertations, bibliographies, concert reviews, critical commentaries, videos and films, etc.

medici.tv This link opens in a new window
medici.tv is an online streaming platform for classical music, with videos of concerts, ballets, operas, and more.
AVON - Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
AVON: Academic Video Online is a comprehensive multidisciplinary streaming video resource.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform for a variety of educational media content.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 19,000 streaming documentaries and foreign/indie feature films.
Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
Contains streaming videos of a variety of theatre productions and includes study materials and interviews with practitioners.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
This online collection of music includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Genres covered include Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. The database also provides access to notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists. [Subscription limits to 15 simultaneous users!]

Reference Resources

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet by Horst Koegler
Call Number: Irwin Library General Stacks GV1585 .K64 1982
ISBN: 0193113309
Publication Date: 1982-10-14
Dictionary of Kinetography Laban by Albrecht Knust
Call Number: Irwin Library General Stacks GV1587 .K5713 1979
ISBN: 9780712104166
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
International Dictionary of Ballet by Martha Bremser (Editor)
Call Number: Irwin Library General Stacks GV1585 .I57 1993
ISBN: 1558620842
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
International Dictionary of Modern Dance by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (Editor); Glynis Benbow-Niemier (Contribution by); St. James Press Staff
Call Number: Irwin Library General Stacks GV1585.I58 1998
ISBN: 1558623590
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet by Gail Grant
Call Number: Irwin Library General Stacks GV1787.G68 1982
ISBN: 1306346746
Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Dance Encyclopedia by Anatole chujoy
Call Number: GV1585 .D3 1967
ISBN: 0671225863
Publication Date: 1967-11-27
International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundations, Inc. by Selma Jeanne Cohen
Call Number: GV1585 .I586 1998 v.1-6
ISBN: 0195187636

Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets by George Balanchine; Francis Mason; Jeffrey Bairstow
Call Number: GV1790.A1 B34 1977
ISBN: 0385113811
Publication Date: 1977-11-01
Complete book of ballets : a guide to the principal ballets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Cyril W. Beaumor
Call Number: GV1790.A1 B35 1938
ISBN: 1353877

The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000 by New York Times Staff
Call Number: GV1599 .N488 2001
ISBN: 1579580599
Publication Date: 2001-05-31

G.K. Hall bibliographic guide to dance.
Call Number: REF GV1594 .B535 2003 v. 1-2
Index to dance periodicals by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection
Call Number: Irwin Library Compact Shelving - Periodicals & Multivolume SetsIndex to Dance Periodicals
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Répertoire International de la Littérature Musicale).
Call Number: Online Database

Black Dance by Alice J. Adamczyk
Call Number: GV1595 .A33 1989
ISBN: 0824088085
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Compilation of Dance Research, 1901-1964 by Esther Elizabeth Pease
Call Number: GV1594 .C6 1964
G.K. Hall bibliographic guide to dance. by New York Public Library Dance Division
Call Number: REF GV1594 .B535
Labanotation Scores by Mary J. Warner; Frederick E. Warner
ISBN: 0962131210
Publication Date: 1988-11-01
Research in Dance IV by Judith A. Gray (Editor)
Call Number: GV1594 .R47 1992
ISBN: 0883145286
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Research in Dance by Mary S. Bopp
Call Number: GV1594 .B67
ISBN: 0816190658
Publication Date: 1993-12-01
Resources in Sacred Dance, 1991 by Kay Troxell
Call Number: GV1783.5 .R47 1991
ISBN: 0962313718
Publication Date: 1991-05-01

Current subscriptions relating to dance:

Dance Magazine
Call Number: eJournal (1994-)
Print volumes shelved in Compact Shelving under: "Dance magazine" (1995-)
Earlier volumes held on microfilm: v. 1-71 (1927-1997)
Publication Date: 1927-
Pointe: The International Magazine of Ballet (New York, N.Y.)
Call Number: ejournal (2001-)
Print volumes shelved in Compact Shelving under "Pointe" (2001-2017)
Publication Date: 2000-
Dance Research Journal (DRJ)
Call Number: eJournal
ISBN: 0149-7677
Publication Date: 1975-
Dance Chronicle
Call Number: eJournal
ISBN: 0147-2526
Publication Date: 1977-

Current continuations (catalogued as books) relating to dance:

(The volumes in these series are cataloged by their individual volume titles and are available either electronically or shelved in circulating stacks.)

Dance and Performance Studies (New York and Oxford)
2007-
Studies in Dance History (Hanover, N.H.)
1997-

For information about additional dance-related titles available electronically:

Search "Journals A-Z" from the Butler Libraries' Home Page.

Historical Dance Periodicals

(held in print, and we no longer receive)

Choreography and Dance
v. 1-4 (1988-1996)
Dance and Dancers
1956-1994 (incomplete; i.e., some missing issues)
Dance Index
v. 1-7 (1942-1948)
Dance News
v. 27 (1955) - v. 67 (1982), missing v. 39-46, 49, 50
Dance Perspectives
nos. 1-66 (1959-1976)

Ballet Review
Publication Date: 1986-2020

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