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Encyclopedias
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance by Call Number: Stacks (MUS) GV1585 .C78 2010 (print version)Publication Date: 2010The Oxford Dictionary of Dance has over 2,600 entries on all aspects of dance performance including detailed entries on technical terms, steps, styles, works and countries, in addition to many biographies of dancers, choreographers, and companies.
International Encyclopedia of Dance by Call Number: Reference (SV) GV1585 .I586 1998 (print version)Publication Date: 2004Containing nearly 2,000 articles, the International Encyclopedia of Dance has been the definitive source on this expressive art form, documenting all types of dance around the world and throughout history.
The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater by Call Number: Stacks (MUS) ML100 .Q44 2004Publication Date: 2004Volume of over 200 articles by scholars of GLBTQ composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles.
Online Resources
- Appreciating Ballet's MusicOnline book by Katherine Teck consisting of essays and a resource guide with links to performances
Ballet Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Ballet DictionaryOffers definitions of French terms for steps, positions, movements, and other technical terms. Compiled by the American Ballet Theatre.
The Encyclopedia of World Ballet by Call Number: Reference (SV) GV1585 .S66 2015 (print version)Publication Date: 2015Surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema.
Research Companions
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition (Online) by Call Number: GV1588.6 .O84 2019 (print version)Publication Date: 2018Asks how competition affects the presentation andexperience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.
The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance (Online) by Call Number: GV1781.2 .O94 2019 (print version)Publication Date: 2019Chapters include: Life Worlds and Ethics; Attunement and Perception; Habit, Freedom, and Resistance; Memory and Transmission; Agency and Transformation; Interconnectivity, Emergence, and Technologies; Ecology and Environments; Techniques, Strategies, and Histories
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics (Online) by Call Number: GV1588.45 .O94 2017 (print version)Publication Date: 2017Examines dance through the lense of political philosophy, interests in social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability, postcolonial, critical race, and queer studies.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing (Online) by Call Number: GV1588.5 .O84 2017 (print version)Publication Date: 2017Examines dance and related movement practices from the perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (Online) by Call Number: GV1779 .O95 2014 (print version)Publication Date: 2014Sets the agenda for the study of dance in popular moving images - films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and YouTube - and offers new ways to understand the multi-layered meanings of the dancing body by engaging with methodologies from critical dance studies, performance studies, and film/media analysis.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity by Call Number: GV1588.6 .O84 2016 (print version)Publication Date: 2016; January 2013 (e-version)Sections include: Dance in the Construction of Ethnic Identity, Dance as a Display of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Creating New Identities through the Dances of the "Other," and Dance as Form of Ethnic Resistance.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy by Call Number: GV1588 .B56 2021Publication Date: 2021Covers the topics of Philosophy practice and how it corresponds to dance; Movement, embodiment and temporality; Philosophy and dance traditions in everyday life; The intersection between dance and technology; and Critical reflections on dance.
