Dance: Websites

Now part of New York Live Arts

Now SHAPE America (Society of Health and Physical Educators)

From the Rand Corporation

Advocacy for the arts in Pennsylvania

From the Arts Education Partnership and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Links to fun, educational websites for exploring dance, like videos to learn dance forms, how to stretch before dance class, and the history of dance education.

For off-campus access to the full text of articles from Dance Research Journal use the link under Dance journals on the Home tab.

From PhiladelphiaDANCE.org

From the Dance Heritage Coalition--short videos of 113 great American dancers and essays about them

From the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery

Dancers' health issues

From the digital collections of Temple University

From the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

From PBS
The library owns the three-disc set:
IMC DVD 792.0973 B863 2004

From PBS

From the New York Public Library

From the Society of Dance History Scholars. The library owns some of the books listed here.

From Dance USA

From the exhibition at the Library of Congress

From the exhibition at the Library of Congress

From BalletMet Columbus, Ballet Company and Dance School

From the Astronomy Picture of the Day website--fun for everyone!

Founded by Anna and Daria Halprin

Also see the Project's book, The Art of Movement, call number Q 792.8 B877

Dance is included in these Pennsylvania Department of Education standards.

Chapter 5: Creating, performing, and responding in dance

From Focus on NAEP, August 1998

National standards for Dance education: "The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts."

Lesson plans

From the Dana Foundation

Students preparing to teach dance at the high school level will find this streaming video series from the Annenberg Foundation helpful. Sign up for a free account to watch the videos.

From the Annenberg Foundation

From the Kennedy Center

Not a website, but a journal article, by Judith Lynne Hanna. From off campus, log in with your WCU username and password. Pick West Chester from the drop-down list.