This collection is alive and ever growing and is constantly updated and modified. If you have a Dance resource that we are missing please reach out to jeff.benedetti-coomber@csuci.edu and let us know.
Dance Resources
Textbooks
Explore film, music, journalism, photography or theatre. Join online arts courses from renowned film schools, universities, cultural institutions. Learn from the experts in creative arts and media.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) an OER search database with textbooks, courses and more. It is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. You can conduct a basic search or search by subject. Like all of these OASIS is constantly being added to.
Find specific courses on screenwriting, theater performance and film studies.
Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses, such as playwriting and philosophy in film. Course format generally includes lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for the performing arts.
Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data.
Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.
Dance Studies Resources
The American Ballet Theatre's Online Ballet Dictionary is a unique interactive resource designed to bring dance to the Web and make it accessible to everyone. Dover Publications has graciously allowed the use of 170 terms from the Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, which are then demonstrated by ABT Company dancers.
This resource provides tools, information and experience about the subject of Contemporary dance.
America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: provides information on the full range of American dance artistry, forms, and traditions. Includes some videos.
Contains links to everything to do with dance notation.
Both a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform with a focus on social sciences and humanities.
PBS and our member stations are America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world.
Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.