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An American Ballroom Companion
Dance Instruction Manuals, Ca. 1490-1920
"Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories."
American Memory, Library of Congress

The Australian Dance Collection: A Directory of Resources
"...is an ongoing project to list Australian dance resources, across a variety of media, that are currently accessible in major Australian research collections."
Sections include: Artistic Directors ; Choreographers ; Dancers ; Dance Companies ; Dance Festivals ; Dance Productions ; Oral History Interviews.
National Library of Australia

Cyber Dance
Ballet on the Net
"This is a collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet."
Includes: Companies ; Colleges ; Schools ; International ; Education Info ; News ; Goods and Services ; People and Organizations ; Dance Web Sites.

Dance in America: Free to Dance
"Explore the "Free To Dance" Web companion, which offers information about the series, a dance timeline, essays on dance history and the African-American contribution to modern dance, biographies of notable dance personalities, links to relevant dance resources online, and more."
PBS Online - Great Performances (June 2000)

The Digital Performance Archive - (dead link)
"...traces the rapid developments taking place which combine performance activity with new digital technologies -from live theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections, to performances that take place on the computer-screen via webcasts and interactive virtual environments. The Archive also collates examples of how computer technologies are being used to create, document or analyse performance - from software applications for choreography and theatre design to specialist websites, e-zines and CD-ROMs."
A joint project between the Digital Research Unit of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at The Nottingham Trent University and the Media and Performance Research Unit, School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford.

English National Ballet
Includes: Schedule ; News ; Company ; Education ; Sponsorship ; Association ; Reference School ; Gallery ; Links ; Auditions ; Jobs.

• Ballet Reference - Links to Other Sites on the Internet - (dead link)

Fred Astaire.Net
This fan site includes: Latest News ; Features ; News ; Information.
By P.J. Thum

PBS - P.O.V. - American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i (August 2003)
Companion website to the film by Lisette Marie Flanary and Evann Siebens.
"...shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands...From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, the largest Hawaiian communities have settled in California, and the hula continues to connect communities to their heritage on distant shores. Sounding a universal note of cultural adaptation and renewal, "American Aloha" takes us on a tour through the practices and philosophies of some of those at the forefront of hula's renaissance on the mainland. The film focuses on the work of three kumu hula, or master teachers of hula, in the largest Hawaiian communities in California."
Sections include: More About Hula ; On Language ; Discover More ; Resources ; For Educators.

Renaissance Dance
"Here you will find information on everything to do with European dance from the 15th to early 17th centuries."
Sections include: Introduction ; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources ; Music Directory ; Renaissance ; Dance Links
By Andrew Draskoy

• Rendance
  "...is a email list for discussion of Renaissance dance. The intended focus is dance reconstruction and related research, but discussion on any relevant topic is welcomed."

Rich Holmes's Morris Site - (dead link)
"This is Rich Holmes's contribution to the ever-increasing genre of morris dancing related sites on the WWW: A collection of stuff having to do with what morris dancing is, isn't, and oughta be. Verifiable facts are liberally seasoned with my own opinions..."

University of New Hampshire - New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music & Dance

• The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium
  First published in 1651 by John Playford.
  "This volume contained the figures and the tunes for 105 English country dances, the first printing of these group social dances that were to dominate Western ballrooms for the next 150 years. The book appeared at a time of great upheaval in England."
  By Robert M. Keller

The World of Butoh Dance (English or Japanese)
"Butoh Dance is a Japanese avant-garde dance originated by HIJIKATA,Tatsumi in 1960s."
By GooSayTen