Research by Subject: Dance
International Encyclopedia of Dance
Call Number: REF GV1585 .I586 2004 
A six-volume comprehensive introduction to movement and dance, from style overviews to dance terms to individual dancers and choreographers. An excellent beginning point for research.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The electronic version of Garland's Encyclopedia of World Music uses a cultural approach to its focus on the music of all the world's peoples. Each volume is arranged topically, regionally, or by ethnic group, and complemented by an extensive index. Includes hundreds of audio examples.
Oxford Music Online 
Encyclopedic coverage of musical subjects of all kinds. Coverage of early dance forms, social dance, and dance as it relates to music.
LIBRARY CATALOG - BOOKS & MORE
HELIN Library Catalog
Find and request material at Wheaton and HELIN:
World Library Catalog
Find and request material at Wheaton, HELIN, Brown, Google Books, and WorldCat (libraries worldwide):
New York Review of Books
Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film. Browseable by year or author; searchable by year, reviewed work, author or contributor. 1963 - present.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY - ARTICLE INDEXES
JSTOR
Full text of over 900 journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes indexing and full text of Dance Chronicle 1977-2002, Dance Research Journal 1974-2004, CORD News 1969-1974, Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research 1983-2006, and Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interarts Inquiry 1995-1999 JSTOR does not contain the most recent 2-7 years of journals. Many titles are continued in Project Muse or in the Library's print and/or electronic subscriptions.
Project Muse
Full text collection of over 420 scholarly journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Earlier years may be in JSTOR. No specific dance journals, but includes related cultural areas.
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes journals in the humanities, including music and performing arts; one of the Ovid databases; 1984 - present.
ERIC
Indexes education articles, including dance education, from 1966-present.
Scopus
Indexes and abstracts scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and web resources. Good coverage of physiology and psychology of dance. Early 1900's - present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text database of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press; 1990 - present.
LexisNexis Academic
Indexes and abstracts U.S. and foreign newspapers and journals. Find reviews, national and international. All full text, indexing from 1980s.
New York Times on the Web - current file
Current (1980+) file includes indexing plus full text articles, with limited images. Access provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
New York Times on the Web - historical file
Historical (1851-2007) file includes indexing and full text articles and full page images. Full text is not available for any articles affected by the Supreme Court ruling on the Tasini case (freelance writers and copyright).
American Periodicals Series Online
APS Online features over 1,500 periodicals ... from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
American Ballroom Companion 
From the American Memory Project, this is a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and other dance-related areas. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another.
