Dance Web Directories

Artslynx International Dance Resources
http://www.artslynx.org/dance

"Dance Links, Ballet Links, and Other Resources organized into accessible link libraries. [We] attempt to allow users to easily navigate to the many amazing dance link libraries available online, but where we find gaps, Artslynx aims to fill them with its own original dance and ballet resources … All links are screened for high-quality content by Artslynx Editor, Richard Kindelstein."

• African Dance
• Ballet Repertoire Notes
• Book sources
• Choreographers and Composers
• Competitions
• Company Listings
• Dance Artwork
• Dance Therapy
• Dance History and Research Resources
• Employment Resources
• Forums of Online discussion
• Funding Sources
• Healing Power of Dance
• Journals and Magazines
• Master Sites - Portal sites
• Notation and Preservation
• Organization Listings
• Physical Theatre
• Regional USA/Canada Master Sites
• Season Planner
• Software
• Studios Listing Sites
• This Month in Dance History
• University Listings
• Vernacular and Popular Dance Resources
• Video sources
• World & Ethnic Dance

Last updated May 2004. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers and advanced High School students

Blue Web'N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
A library of hand picked Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web. From Pacific Bell; five new sites are added weekly. Educators and librarians with advanced degrees choose sites that have outstanding format; content that is creditable, useful, rich and interdisciplinary; a learning process that promotes higher order thinking, is engaging, and integrates at least three intelligences or talents. Excellent materials!

• Each site is given a rating. There are a few dance entries, if you look. Search by:
• Content Areas - Arts/Performing Arts
• Audience/Grade level
• Format - lessons, activities, projects, resources, references & tools

For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers

Curriculum Internet Links
http://www.hcpss.org/dance/dance912.html
Good, teacher approved, annotated links for upper division dance classes. Includes:

• Companies
• Techniques
• Schools/studios
• Resources
• Lesson Plans
• Search Engines
• Publications
• Cool Links
• Dance Supplies
• Professional Organizations

From the Howard County Public Schools, Maryland. Updated June, 2005. For Secondary teachers

CyberDance
http://www.cyberdance.org
is an award winning collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. Included (with no annotations) are:

• Companies
• Colleges
• Schools
• Summer Programs, Education Info
• News & Information
• People & Organizations
• International
• Goods & Services
• Dance Web Sites & Return Links

Kept current. For Middle School and High School teachers, and students. Teachers may guide younger students to portions of sites appropriate for them.

Dance Links
http://www.dancer.com/dance-links
is supported by Gaynor Minden, has some helpful comments about negotiating the net sites, and lists links (with no annotations) to:

• Ballet Companies
• Modern/Contemporary Dance Companies
• More Dance Companies (Flamenco, Tap, Butoh, Multimedia, Jazz, World, etc.)
• Dance Presenters & Performance Listings
• Newsgroups, Dance Publications, Dance FAQs etc.
• Dance Organizations, Coalitions, etc.
• Funding Resources
• Miscellaneous Dance Resources
• University Dance
• Dance Schools
• Dancers
• Dance Web Indices

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle School and High School teacher use, advanced High School student use.

DMOZ: Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/Arts/performing_arts/dance
Arts Education K - 12 annotated links, generally well chosen by volunteer editors from around the world. There are numerous languages supported on this site. Here are lessons plus other materials. Visual Arts is the strongest, but the other arts are also included. Updated June 2005.

For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
created by Kathy Schrock, the Administrator for Technology for Nauset Public Schools. Subject Access leads to well chosen, annotated links to sites with good ideas for lessons - some are directly usable by students. Performing Arts & Music is mostly music, but has some Dance.

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers and with guidance, students

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
http://www.sapphireSwan.com/dance/
is a commercial site designed as a guide to Dance on the web with links from Balkan and Ballet to Tap Vintage and Zydico dance. Each of these dance types has links to multiple sites, some with good descriptive information.

Last modified, August 2004. For teachers. Selected sites may be used by students.

TEAMS Educational Resources: Center for Distance Learning, LA Council of Education
http://teams.lacoe.edu/teachers/index.asp
Check out Visual and Performing Arts, Dance. You'll find a number of carefully chosen, annotated links to sites with ideas for activities. We could not find update information .

For elementary, middle and high school teachers.

Dance Magazines

These are commercial sites with information about publications and their purchase.

Dance Education Book
http://www.dancehorizons.com/educ.html
listing of dance education books from Princeton Book Publishers.

DanceTeacher
http://www.dance-teacher.com/
the magazine for dance professionals - including educatiors.