Research Guides: Dance Research Guide: Find Reference Tools

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Surveys

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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Printed book. Use in library. Click on the title to see the library catalog record with the call number.
International Encyclopedia of Dance (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. 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. (6 vols.)
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Printed encyclopedia. Use in library. Click on the title to see the library catalog record with the call number.
International Dictionary of Modern Dance (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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Oxford Dictionary of Dance Includes information on dancers, choreographers, teachers, composers, technical terms, major works, important films, and organizations involved in the dance world. It embraces the new activity within traditional forms like ballet as well as the stream of new dance languages invented by fresh generations of choreographers and the many dance forms imported from the rest of the world. There is information on classical ballet, Spanish flamenco, Indian Bharata Natyam, Japanese Butoh, and jazz.

Indexes, Abstracts, and Bibliographies

Bibliographic Guide to Dance (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. New York Public Library Dance Collection. Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection: A List of Authors, Titles, and Subjects of Multi-Media Materials in the Dance Collection of the Performing Arts Research Center of the New York Public Library. 10 vols. [New York]: New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations; Boston: distributed by G. K. Hall, 1974.
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Printed index. Use in library. Click on the title to see the library catalog record with the call number.
Black Dance : an Annotated Bibliography (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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A Core Collection in Dance (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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Dancers and Choreographers : a Selected Bibliography (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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Directories and Guides

Stern's Directory : a Publication of Dance Magazine (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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Research Guides

Research in Dance : a Guide to Resources (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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