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Best of the Web: Performing Arts » Dance » Research
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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
- Dance Library of Israel
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Dance Milestones
Compiled and edited by Richard Finkelstein.
- Dance Notation Bureau, Notated Theatrical Dances
- Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, Index of Choreography
- EUDRID: European Dance Research Information Directory
- 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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Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Lee, Massachusetts.
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives
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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.
- Library of Congress--Performing Arts
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National Museum of Dance
Saratoga Springs, New York.
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Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives
An international guide to archives, compiled by the Library of Congress.
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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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SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
The extensive directory of the Societe Internationale des Bibliotheque et des Musees des Artes du Spectacle includes many institutions with dance components.
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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.
- The German Dance Archive of Cologne
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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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Picture of the Day
William Blake (1757-1827). So cried he ... NYPL Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery