interactive resource providing definitions to ballet terms along with related multimedia. Includes 170 terms from Dover Publications' Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, which are demonstrated by ABT Company dancers.
The list of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures is intended to heighten public interest in America's dance heritage and the imperative to document and preserve it for future generations.
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance, chronicling the art of dance in all its forms.
This collection consists of moving image materials that document the life and career of Katherine Dunham. It includes photographs from the Library of Congress, The Missouri Historical Society, and Southern Illinois University; film and videotape excerpts from Dunham's research and performing career; and selections from the Library's Dunham Legacy Project that documented the Dunham dance technique.
