Researching in the Performing Arts @ CCM

Online. With over 2,600 entries, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance is a single volume reference on all aspects of dance performance written by dance writers, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell. The work covers all aspects of the diverse dance world from classical ballet to modern, flamenco to hip-hop, tap to South Asian dance forms. It includes detailed entries on technical terms, steps, styles, works and countries, in addition to many biographies of dancers, choreographers, and companies.

Online. 2,000 articles on the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers. Edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen and the Dance Perspectives Foundation. Published in print, Oxford University Press, 1998; onlline 2005.

Print book by Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner (New York: Schirmer Books; London: Collier Macmillan, 1982). CCM Reference GV1785.A1 C58 1982.

Print book edited by Martha Bremser (2 vols), (Detroit : St. James Press, 1993). CCM Reference GV1585 .I57 1993 v.1-2.

Print book edited by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (Detroit: St. James Press, 1998). CCM Reference GV1585 .B46 1998.

Naxos Video Library currently offers around 95 streaming videos of ballet and other dance.

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 manifestations—ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk—the division includes many dance collections, such as the Merce Cunningham Video Archive, Joffrey Ballet slides, Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, New York City Ballet Video Archive, and many others, archiving dance from around the world.

An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today, plus new illustrated essays.

The CCM Library is a repository library for Balanchine Foundation Archives videos. The DVD series include the interpreters' archive and the archive of lost choreography.

DVD. A short documentary on Millicent Hodson's and Kenneth Archer's attempts to recreate the original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and original sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the original production in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of Spring. The complete reconstructed ballet performed by the Joffrey Ballet follows the documentary. CCM Media VID DVD 222.