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Best of the Web: Performing Arts » Dance » Preservation » Digitized Dance Resources
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American Ballet Theatre's Ballet Dictionary
This resource offers demonstrations of ballet steps in QuickTime, as well as textual definitions.
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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1600-1920
Library of Congress American Memory Project.
- Ballet Russe Scenery Collection
- Ballet Russe Scenery Collection of the Butler Ballet
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Dance Milestones
Compiled and edited by Richard Finkelstein.
- Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, Index of Choreography
- Glossarist - Dance Glossaries and Dictionaries
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Images of the Dance
Photographs online at the New York Public Library (Click on numbered items close browser window to return to this page.)
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Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection, ca. 1913-1945
Structured as a finding aid, this "digital" archive contains over 2,000 photographs, pictures, and memorabilia, housed in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. It is part of the California Heritage Digital Image Finding Aids.
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Renaissance Dance Sources
Compiled by Joseph Casazza and Elizabeth Cain includes a transcription of the New York Public Library Dance Collection's "Il Papa Manuscript."
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The Dance Card Museum
An online exhibition of late 19th and early 20th century "Ballspenden" from Europe and America, from the private collection of Federico Santi and John Gacher of The Drawing Room of Newport, Rhode Island.
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This Month in Dance History
Compiled and edited by Richard Finkelstein.
- Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
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25th Anniversary Banquet [Held By] New Haven Yacht Club ... (1906). NYPL Rare Books Division.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery