Dance

The definitive encyclopedia for dance information from all over the world. Search for a specific type of dance OR search for a country to read an overview of that culture's dances.

PRINT BOOK (only one copy). Gives excellent historical, social, and technical overviews of folk dances from all over the world. Arranged alphabetically. Use Index to find specific dances or learn about dances of specific countries.

While this online encyclopedia is focused on music, it frequently also discusses the dances from around the world as well. Try reading the overview for your country/culture and also try doing keyword searches for particular styles of dances.

Ebooks. Set of 10 books. Each book covers a specific decade of American society in the 20th century. For example, volume 1 focuses on the time period of 1900-1909. These books are excellent resources for understanding major happenings, social trends, artistic occurrences, etc. for a time period. They might be helpful to contextualize information you gather from your interviews. Be sure to select the correct volume! See the dropdown field in "Choose a volume" to move between decades.

Excellent resource to locate scholarly articles on many different styles of dance. Try searching for the word "dance" and the country name. Also try searching for specific dance types.

Similar to International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, but the coverage is a bit different. Some results will be the same and others will be different. Make sure to search in both.

The articles here come from the anthropology discipline; however, there are many articles that will be helpful for dance from around the world. Try searches similar to the previous databases.

Streaming video

Videos of cultures from all over the world. Not specifically focused on dance, but there are many instances of dance to be found here.

HUGE streaming video site. Not solely focused on dance. Provides almost 30,000 documentaries about history, culture, etc. some of which contain dance.

Folk and traditional music from all over the world. Particularly valuable for its liner notes (see note in Step 1) as they normally discuss where the music was collected and the social surroundings of it.