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DANC 4290: Dance for the Camera: Databases

Resources to help students enrolled in Meg Brooker's Dance for the Camera class.

Online Dance Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

These resources provide information about specific dancers, dance companies, choreographers, venues, and genres.

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
    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.
  • International Dictionary of Modern Dance
    This dictionary is included within the Biographies in Context database. Includes biographies, articles and bibliographies for prominent people in the field of Dance.
  • International Encyclopedia of Dance
    With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.

Periodical Databases

Use these databases to search for articles in journals and magazines.