Featured Resources
- Dance TeacherWritten for the dance teaching industry, short, easy to read articles on a wide range of dance topics including: dancers, choreographers, history, dance styles.
- Dance and the Child USADance and the Child International (daCi) is a nonprofit organization aiming to promote growth and development in dance for children and youth internationally.
- Dance/USA ArchiveThe Dance Heritage Coalition brings together the resources of archives across the United States that have significant collections devoted to dance history.
- Arts Journal: DanceArtsJournal brings together articles from varied publications that pertain to the art world. Just part of that is a section devoted to dance, sourced from periodicals like Dance Magazine, Huffington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
- Dance Resources via PBSIncludes lesson plans, interactive game and videos related to dance education.
Major Databases for Articles
These online sources are good places to start searching for articles related to dance. For access to subscription resources from the Library, make sure your computer is configured for off-campus access if you are researching from home.
For more suggested sources, use the tabs by category on the menu.
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowArticles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text back issues of core scholarly journals, browsable and searchable across multiple disciplines. Coverage starts with first issue, with moving wall for most recent 3-5 years. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books only. JSTOR also includes primary source collections, including images from Artstor.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles.
- Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This link opens in a new windowCollection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials from the 20th and 21st century, including photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material. Includes the full run of Dance Magazine from 1927-present.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowIndexes major journals across many disciplines.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowContains records from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index for journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century to the present.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowIndexes worldwide publications on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, television, and theater from 1923 to the present. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
