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| | Invitation to the Dance (Library of Congress Music, Theater, Dance: An Illustrated Guide) |
 | | These dancing masters used manuals published in Europe and the British Isles, and the Library has numerous superb examples of these publications in the Music Division. | | | This state of affairs has left libraries and archives with documents that have been preserved by virtue of their relationship to another field, such as music, theater, or cultural history. | | | Recordings and other documents from Library projects are used by patrons through the Archive of Folk Culture's reading room in the Jefferson Building, and the Recorded Sound Reference Center, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in the Performing Arts Reading Room in the Madison Building. |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/guide/dance.html
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| | Spotlight Biography: Modern Dance |
| | After going to a dance concert with some friends, Limón felt that he had finally found his calling, and he immediately began to study dance with Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey. | | | Katherine Dunham pioneered the use of folk and ethnic dance as a basis for modern theatrical compositions. | | | Her company's New York debut in 1940 was an unqualified success, and her compositions were recognized as the first uniquely African American concert dance. |
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http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/dance.html
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| | Dance Internships - College Dance Programs - Hollins University |
| | Using the resources of the new dance media lab, HRDC students expanded their ideas with the use of digital sound, video, and animation. | | | While there students were able to not only attend diverse concerts, but also take part in an international colloquial on dance. | | | Using the resources of both institutions, the program will offer two tracks: the year-residency track and the low-residency track (for mid-career artists, teachers, and dance professionals). |
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http://www.hollins.edu/undergrad/dance/dance.htm
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| | Modern Dance |
| | Studies in basic elements of dance improvisation and composition. | | | Extended studies in basic elements of dance composition and improvisation. | | | Review and application of music as accompaniment for dance. |
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http://www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/1018/crsdesc/dance.html
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| | Modern/Contemporary Dance Companies on the Web |
| | Paula Mann Dance - Paula Mann, AD - ? | | | Demetrius Klein Dance Company - Demetrius Klein, AD - Lake Worth, FL, USA | | | Dance Circus - Betty Salamun, AD - Milwaukee, WI, USA |
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http://www.dancer.com/dance-links/modern.htm
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| | Modern dance and marketing trends |
| | The rock step was abandoned and the dance is done up and down on an imaginary track. | | | At the Street Fair there was a band playing swing music and people were doing their thing to it. | | | England made a dance called "Jive" from it and the list goes on. |
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http://www.danceolife.com
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| | Modern Dance News |
| | City's booming modern dance scene struts its stuff in autumn showcase | | | A broken heart as the subject for a dance sounds straightforward enough. | | | Jav Gives Something Back Pop babe Javine is doing her bit for the stars... |
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http://www.topix.net/arts/modern-dance
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| | Great Performances: Free To Dance - Resources - Web |
| | Denver's multicultural dance-arts institution, created with the mindset that the language of dance transcends boundaries of culture, class, and age. | | | A fun Web site on the history of break dancing, showcasing its dance moves, styles, and music. | | | One of the first black performing arts companies in the Washington D.C. area, African Heritage Dancers and Drummers offers dance, music, and crafts workshops for children and youth as a multicultural educational tool. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/resources.html
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| | DANCE!90210 |
| | BENITA BIKE'S DanceArt - After seventeen years on the East Coast and France this inventive modern company now resides in the Southland with its solid track record of accomplishments in dance performance and education. | | | DANCE LINKS - Amy Reusch and Jim White maintain the ultimate dance list. | | | DANCE TEACHER NOW - This widely read, excellent, magazine is devoted to all aspects of dance education. |
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http://www.dance90210.com
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| | Modern Dance Classes for Adults in Downtown Toronto |
| | Modern Movement classes feature live percussion played by local Toronto musicians Jake Oelrichs, Paul Fitterer, and Kayle Donner. | | | What Kind of Music is Used to Accompany the Dancing? | | | She has an M.A. in Dance from York University, as well as certification in movement analysis from the University of Quebec in Montreal. |
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http://www.xoe.com/ModernMovement
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| | modern dance: The Beginnings of Modern Dance |
| | She relied on elaborate costumes and sinuous improvised movements to suggest the dances of India and Egypt and to evoke mystical feelings. | | | Profile: Modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor (Morning Edition (NPR)) | | | Modern dance began at the turn of the century; its pioneers were Isadora |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0859703.html
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| | Circle Modern Dance Company, Knoxville, Tennessee |
| | In addition, Circle produces an annual winter concert Modern Dance, Primitive Light, a candlelit concert featuring live music, poetry, and new original dances. | | | Circle also produces a Spring concert that showcases the works of local choreographers as well as guest artists. | | | Circle Modern Dance was founded in the fall of 1990 to provide Knoxville audiences with an alternative to the current dance experiences available. |
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http://www.discoveret.org/circle
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| | Modern Dance |
| | MODERN DANCE, a stylistic and historical term that refers to a wide range of nonballetic concert dance forms. | | | After 1960 a challenge to modern dance arose in the arena of postmodern dance, but by the 1990s both forms coexisted and sometimes intermixed, with ballet as well, on the international stage. | | | Modern II "Who Am I" by Casting Crowns |
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http://www.messiah.edu/org/acclamation/MODERN/Modern.htm
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| | Russian Classical ballet and Modern Dance |
| | Ballet can be defined today as a theatrical entertainment of group and solo dancing usually to a musical, vocal or percussion accompaniment, with costumes, scenery, and lighting. | | | They also found interesting to present both movements of Russian Dance art on the same site so that the user could compare them and feel the oppositeness of these two dance genres. | | | Although modern dance originated in Europe, by 1930 the United States had become the center for dance experimentation. |
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http://slis.cua.edu/ihy/sppj/about.htm
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| | Modern Dance in Rhode Island |
| | Dances are fully taught and documented on video (dvd in the works), cd, notebooks and notation. | | | Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. | | | Her latest dance, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, commissioned by the White Oak Dance Project, had its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June 2000. |
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http://www.ridance.com/rimodern.html
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| | TCU Ballet & Modern Dance Curriculum |
| | The curricular offerings for both majors include classes in performance and ensemble work, composition, improvisation, aesthetics, teaching methods, dance history, music, theater, dance kinesiology and jazz dance. | | | Coursework includes three levels of daily one-hour, 20-minute technique classes in Ballet and Modern Dance. | | | TCU offers a rich variety of liberal arts courses to choose from in fulfilling requirements. |
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http://www.dance.tcu.edu/curriculum.html
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| | Modern Dance at Amazon.com |
| | Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation by Daniel Nagrin | | | Denishawn: The Birth of Modern Dance (1988, VHS) | | | Tamiris: A Chronicle of Her Dance Dance Career, 1927-1955 by Christena L. Schlundt |
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http://www.xmission.com/~rdt/danceshop/amazon.html
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| | The Joyce Theater: Beijing Modern Dance Company |
| | The award-winning company that astonished California audiences in its US debut makes its highly anticipated New York debut in the spring of 2005 with REAR LIGHT, performed to the music of Pink Floyd's The Wall. | | | This tour of Beijing Modern Dance Company is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. | | | Performances by international companies this spring are supported, in part, by American Express Company. |
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http://www.joyce.org/beijing05.html
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| | New York City Reference |
| | A not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to the revival and promotion of swing dancing to live Big Band music. | | | An active Chelsea theater, featuring modern dance, performance art, theater and music events. | | | Paul Taylor Dance Company - now in its forty first year - celebrates the artistry of Paul Taylor, performing his dances throughout the world. |
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http://www.panix.com/clay/nyc/query.cgi?D1
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| | University of Utah Modern Dance |
| | Experience the Modern Dance Department first-hand and see a performance by Performing Dance Company. | | | Department of Modern Dance 330 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 - Phone 801.581.7327 |
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http://www.dance.utah.edu
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| | Contemporary Dance Ensemble - Modern Dance History |
| | She performed her first public concert in 1900 in London and continued performing and teaching until her death in 1927. | | | She felt that "a portrait should not be a physical or a spiritual likeness, but rather a psychological likeness." In terms of physical technique, she introduced the concept of contraction and release to express her themes. | | | Many of her disciples are still teaching and choreographing for modern companies of their own. |
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http://www.cde.org.vt.edu/mdrnhist.htm
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| | Modern Dance - www.artindia.net |
| | Uday Shankar, who was born in the early years of the 20th century, is widely accepted as the Father of Modern Dance in India. | | | He was a catalyst in the renaissance of interest in Indian arts during the 1930s and '40s, and he introduced audiences in the West to Indian dance and music through the performances of his troupe. | | | With her daughter Ranjabati Sarkar and their troupe based in Calcutta she did a great deal of research and codification of the dance style and presented a large number of choreographic productions. |
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http://www.artindia.net/modern.html
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| | StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Modern Dance Page - Main1 |
| | This term 'Modern Dance' designates a concept of dance rather than a School or Studio. | | | The Modern Dance form came to be due to the restrictions on the ballet dancers at the time or to "release the dancer from explicit and locked definition" but today modern dance is very recognizable thru its forms, base and techniques. | | | Modern dance is said to be based on four principles: |
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http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3modrn1.htm
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| | Dance Directory - Modern Dance |
| | modern dance modern dance modern dance modern dance modern dance modern dance modern dance | | | The Modern Dance Directory is part of the Sapphire Swan Dance Directory. | | | The Modern Dance page can, however, be viewed separately. |
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http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance/modern.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History |
| | YA A one-volume dance source that does it all, this is a history of dance from prehistory to the 20th Century. | | | It provides a sound overview of the history of dance with special focus on ballet and modern dance. | | | Dance As a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present by Katy Matheson |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871271729?v=glance
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| | Modern & Contemporary Dance, Dancers, Companies, History |
| | Developed in the 20th century, modern dance broke away from a formal tradition to pioneer an experimental, free-form way of moving across the stage. | | | Dance.com - Contemporary/Modern Dance Companies - An extensive list of links in A-Z format to U.S. and international dance companies. | | | StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Modern Dance - A concise overview of the genre with links to its most famous proponents beginning with Isadora Duncan and more, with related links to books and articles. |
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http://www.chiff.com/art/dance/modern.htm
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| | HESSDANCE.ORG |
| | The studio builds upon mid-twentieth century modern dance traditions, connecting with the subsequent trends, which have developed in dance. | | | It is the vision of Susan Hess Modem Dance to expand upon its unique twenty-year history as a modern dance institution and to continue its history as one of the only nonacademic institutions in the Philadelphia area to develop choreographers and dancers and to shape new work in dance and the performing arts. | | | In addition the studio provides classes, workshops, and performances, which are open to the public. |
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http://www.hessdance.org
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| | American Dance Institute - ballet, modern dance, flamenco, jazz, and Pilates for children and adults in Rockville, ... |
| | BosmaDance to perform October 29 and 30, 2005 | | | American Dance Institute - ballet, modern dance, flamenco, jazz, and Pilates for children and adults in Rockville, Maryland | | | The American Dance Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 educational organization founded to train intelligent, musical and athletic individuals with spirit, the Institute provides the Maryland, Virginia and DC metropolitan region with: |
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http://www.americandance.org
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| | OU School of Dance—Modern Repertory Dance Theatre |
| | For over 20 years, MRDT has performed in OU’s Rupel Jones Theatre and frequently engages in regional, national and international tours (including a tour of five major cities in Japan and two tours of Paraguay). | | | Modern Repertory Dance Theatre, founded and directed until 1998 by Ko Yukihiro, is the resident modern dance company of the University of Oklahoma. | | | An ensemble of 20 dancers, MRDT offers the spectator an array of modern dance, jazz, dramatic and abstract works. |
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http://www.ou.edu/finearts/dance/dmrdt.htm
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| | Modern Dance |
| | Now the participants are twentysomething professionals from every rung of the social ladder, with just one thing in common: a jones for the golden age of high society. | | | “In the seventeenth century, it was during these dances that young people were probably setting up their trysts,” adds Keinanen, who is now dating an executive recruiter from Islip. | | | Others, like Jessi Wilson—an unemployed writer from Baltimore, who says her parents are less ball than “barbecue” (her father’s favorite dance is the electric slide)—did their hair themselves. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/n_8362
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| | O-T-O Dance |
| | -T-O Dance, Inc., is a flying modern dance company created by Anne Bunker in 1985. | | | This historic building is home base for O-T-O Dance. | | | O-T-O is the performance wing of the full company, Orts Theatre of Dance, so if you see "Orts" somewhere here, it's still us! |
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http://www.orts.org
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| | BayDance.com Home Page |
| | All photographs in BayDance retain the copyright of the respective dance company and photographer. | | | To submit performance notices, auditions, dance company information, or say hello, click |
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http://www.baydance.com
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| | Dance Directory |
| | Dance links are organized by dance styles and by other categories, making the Dance Directory easy to use. | | | Individual pages of the Dance Directory, however, can be viewed separately. | | | The Sapphire Swan Dance Directory provides links to the best dance resources available on the Web. |
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http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance
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| | Valerie Williams Co'Motion Dance Theater -- Modern Dance Company |
| | Dance is assisted by virtual reality technology, but the virtual reality technology is given life through dance. | | | Valerie Williams Co'Motion Dance Theater -- Modern Dance Company | | | Wearing polarized glasses allows the audience to be part of the scene. |
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http://www.comotion.org
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| | UPNE The Modern Dance |
| | Trained in modern dance and ballet, and educated at the University of Chicago from which she holds a Ph.D., SELMA JEANNE COHEN occupies a unique place in the dance world as editor of Dance Perspectives. | | | Cohen is the author of Next Week, Swan Lake (Wesleyan, 1982) and she edited and completed Doris Humphrey, An Artist First: An Autobiography (Wesleyan, 1972). | | | Most recently, she was founding editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance (1998). |
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http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6003-0.html
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| | Modern Dance Links |
| | If you do not see the Dance Directory index along the left side of the screen, click on this link: Dance Directory. | | | Beauty of Modern Dance - Photographs by Jay Anderson | | | is a guide to dance resources available on the web. |
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http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance/links/modern.htm
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| | Cyber Dance - Ballet on the Net - 10th Anniversary 2005 |
| | CyberDance is an extensive internet dance database - a collection of over 3,500 links to classical | | | ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. | | | I welcome comments, notice of expired links, and requests to be listed in these pages - email |
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http://www.cyberdance.org
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| | Dance Alloy Home |
| | nothing short of stunning…works that would be the envy of any modern dance company” | | | You may need Adobe Reader to open some of the links on the website. |
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http://www.dancealloy.org
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| | dance.net - Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Tap, Irish, Disco, Twirling, Cheer: Photos, Chat, Games, Jobs, Events! |
| | Just add a link to www.dance.net on your personal website. | | | dance.net - Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Tap, Irish, Disco, Twirling, Cheer: Photos, Chat, Games, Jobs, Events! |
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http://www.dance.net
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