Dance

Includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement from around the world from the 1930s-1990s.

Vimeo account for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which has performed for over 23 million people in 48 states and in 71 countries on 6 continents, celebrating the African-American cultural experience and the American modern dance tradition. Their Vimeo account includes
performances and interviews.

The Dance Heritage Coalition is a national alliance of institutions holding significant collections of materials documenting the history of dance and has published a collection of essays, images, and biographies of 113 American individuals and institutions that have made a significant impact on dance as an art form. [Note this is a snapshot of this website hosted on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from May 2017-- it will load slowly. Note also that each page linked at the bottom points a page about each treasure, which then links to a PDF of the article written about each 'treasure.']

Browsable indexes of years, ballets, choreographers, and composers.

A collection of over two hundred social dance instruction manuals, ca. 1490-1920 available online from the Library of Congress.

Includes a wide range of Ballets Russes objects, including photographs, scrapbooks, writings, costume and set designs, choreographic notes, music scores, diaries, and programs.

Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) was a dancer, teacher, and a significant artist in the development of twentieth-century ballet choreography. Available online are over 200 items, including: manuscripts, books, diaries, choreographic notebooks, correspondence, moving image materials, music scores, photographs, posters, programs, set and costume designs, and scrapbooks.

The collection preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form.

Offers a collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob's Pillow from the 1930s to the present, multimedia essays, and a podcast.

A selection of digitized films and videos and audio recordings held by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the world’s largest dance archive and library with an international and extensive collection that spans seven centuries.

The collection highlights Dunham’s early explorations as an anthropologist in the 1930s as she observed a multitude of movement types and dance forms. Dunham's focus on the movements and dances of the African diaspora that so influenced her development as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.

Visual documentation of dance practices, performance, and studio portraits of ballet stars of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the New York City Ballet.

Merse Cunningham (1919-2009) was a leader of the American avant-garde throughout his seventy year career and is considered one of the most important choreographers of his time.

Provides free, open access to a unique video collection including filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, and short and feature-length films. All genres, styles and types of dance are represented.

Encourage and explore the participation, analysis, appreciation, and history of Dance. Students can create diagrams to compare different styles of dance, from clogging to stomping to ballet. Teachers can collaboratively plan interdisciplinary lessons, such as choreographing, graphing, and performing a figure for a square dance, in the Math + Arts collection. The history of dance, dance as a profession, and technology in dance are among the additional topics explored in Dance.

Contains approximately 2,100 posters in the online Performing Arts Posters category represent the entire contents of three collections: the Magic Poster Collection, the Minstrel Poster Collection, and the Theatrical Poster Collection containing Burlesque, Dance, Music, Operetta, Speciality Acts, Vaudeville, Kiralfy Brothers, Portrait and Stock Posters.

TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, but today it spans a multitude of worldwide communities and initiatives exploring everything from science and business to education, arts and global issues.

An archive of avant-garde materials. Sections dedicated specifically to dance, sound, and more. Active from 1996 to 2024.