Dance Research Article Databases
The following are a list of research databases that offer full-text or citations to books, book chapters, and research articles published in research journals such as those listed on this page.
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides extensive full-text of articles, reviews, & other content from many leading, primarily English-language journals & magazines in theater, dance, & the performing arts (1995+). Also offers citations, abstracts, & some full text for articles, books, book chapters, & dissertations back to 1982. Additional selective content dates back to 1929.
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage of the performing arts, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, comedy, opera, and more. IIPA indexes more than 210 periodicals. Full text is available from 1998 to the present; citations to articles are indexed back to 1864. Formerly known as International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text.
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Multidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines. - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals and monographs in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc.
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An index of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics are included. 1967+
Dance Research Article Journals
The following is a list of dance research journals that publish peer-reviewed articles. For a fast overview of what "peer review" means in this context, see the video "Peer View in 3 Minutes" from NCSU Libraries. For a full list of dance periodicals (magazines and research journals) JMU subscribes to, see this list in the library catalog.
- American Journal of Dance TherapyThe American Journal of Dance Therapy is a platform for reporting the latest findings in dance/movement therapy theory, research, and clinical practice.
- Dance ArticulatedAn open access journal that publishes research connected to dance, dance education, and choreography. Previously named "På Spissen Forskning" from 2015-19.
- Dance ChroniclePublishes research on dance and seeks to expand the constituencies, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks represented within the field of dance studies.
- Dance Education in PracticePublishes practical approaches to dance education with models of new ideas, strategies, & content that readers may apply to their dance teaching practice.
- Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance ResearchCovers dance worldwide both from a historical and contemporary perspecive, engaging with current debates on dance and across cognate disciplines with dance at the centre of inquiry.
- Dance Research JournalIncludes scholarly articles on dance history, theory, pedagogy, politics, science, ethnography, and intersections with cultural, gender, critical race, and diasporic studies. Published 3 times a year by the Congress on Research in Dance.
- Journal of Dance EducationPublishes research on dance teaching and learning including training of dancers, pedagogy, collaboration, creativity, social justice, choreography and technology.
- Research in Dance EducationPublishes studies that promote high-quality research, practice and debate in all aspects of dance education.
- Theatre, Dance and Performance TrainingPublishes research on performance training by practitioners, academics, creative artists and pedagogues, including training processes and performance making.