Dance

Provides resources, support, and opportunities for community theatres, employees, and volunteers. Offers memberships for individuals and organizations.

Supports dance in higher education through conferences, competitions, and festivals.

The purpose of the ADTA is to establish, maintain, and support the highest standards of professional identity and competence among dance/movement therapists by promoting education, training, practice, and research. The Association provides avenues of communication among dance/movement therapists and those working in related fields and increases public awareness of dance/movement therapy.

Reports and documents pertaining to research on education and the arts as well as various state programs

National service organization for dance. Information about the organization itself as well as publications, conferences, grants, auditions.

DHC is a national alliance of institutions holding significant collections of materials documenting the history of dance. Its mission is to preserve, make accessible, enhance and augment the materials that document the artistic accomplishments in dance of the past, present, and future.

DNB is a non-profit organization founded to preserve choreographic works through notating dance scores through the use of a system of notation called Labanotation. Collaborates with dance companies to stage reconstructions of those works.

DSA aims to strengthen the visibility and increase the reach of dance studies as a critical field of knowledge production, encompassing political, creative, and embodied practices at the intersection of the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide that was founded in 1964 and then merged in 2017 with the Society of Dance History Scholars to form the Dance Studies Association (DSA).

IADMS in an organization for professionals who care for those who dance by evolving best practices in dance science, education, research, and medical care to support optimal health, well-being, training, and performance.

IABD preserves and promotes dance by people of African ancestry or origin, and assists and increases opportunities for artists in advocacy, audience development, education, funding, networking, performance, philosophical dialogue, and touring.

An organization of schools, conservatories, colleges, and universities with approximately 84 accredited institutional members. It establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials for dance and dance-related disciplines, and provides assistance to institutions and individuals engaged in artistic, scholarly, educational, and other dance-related endeavors.

NDEO is a non-profit organization that supports dance educators in every setting and genre. Their mission is to advance dance education for people of all backgrounds.

A nonprofit whose mission is to empower pre-professional dance in communities across America through education, scholarship, connection, and performance opportunities.

SDR is an internationally focused, British-based non-profit society that supports and develops scholarly interests in all forms of dance through seminars, conferences, performances, and publications.

SDC is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, and protects professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States.

The DanceSport organization, recognized by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. They develop social and competitive dance communities and inspire and enable a lifetime of health through the joy of dance.