Dance

Criticaldance
CriticalDance is an international non-profit for promoting and supporting the dance arts (especially ballet and modern dance). The site includes a moderated bulletin board, reviews, features, interviews, and links to select dance pages. The organization publishes an online magazine, Ballet-Dance Magazine.

George Balanchine Catalog
Online searchable database of all known dances created by Balanchine, giving details of the first performance, major revisions, stagings, and visual records in a condensed form. Includes filmography and more.

Jacob's Pillow Dance
Documents the history of the Festival and School. Strong emphasis on Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Company.

National Endowment for the Arts: Dance Resources
Listing of funding, dance organizations, and other web resources.

Digital Collections

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:29:41 -0700

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
From the Library Of Congress' American Memory Project, a collection of over 200 dance manuals, some of which also include historical information on theatrical dance.

The Dancing Master, 1651-1728
An illustrated compendium compiled by Robert M. Keller.

Dramatispersonae Archive
Online collection of rare performance texts from the University of Utah and devoted to European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850.

Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
Searchable database of some 16,000 dance and performing arts-related objects from one of the New York Public Library's largest collections.

Professional Organizations

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:08:50 -0700

American Dance Guild

American Dance Therapy Association

Congress on Research in Dance

Dance/USA

National Dance Association

Society of Dance History Scholars

Society of Directors and Choreographers

Modern Daydreams - Deere John

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:47:20 -0700

MitchellRose.com & BodyVox Dance Company present "Modern Daydreams," a suite of four Chaplinesque films. In this episode a man and a 22 ton John Deere excavator dance a dance of discovery, fulfillment, and eventually, the loss that any diesel-based relationship must suffer.

Alvin Ailey's Revelations - Pilgrim of Sorrow

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:56:01 -0700

1982 performance of 'Revelations' by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Dance in America

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:30:19 -0700

Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America

This 90-minute PBS program features aerial dancers off the cliffs of Yosemite National Park, synchronized swimmers underwater at Coral Reef National Monument, and follows some of the country's most exciting young dancers to Mammoth Cave, Wright Brothers National Memorial, the remains of a sugar cane plantation at Virgin Islands National Park, and the sacred terrain of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Dance Films and Videos

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:32:09 -0700

Dance films and videos in the PCC Library

Get Help in Person or by Phone

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:41 -0700

You can ask our librarians a question during open hours at any PCC Library.

Need the phone number for your campus? Contact us! If you'd rather come by in person, check the PCC Library locations and hours.

Email Us

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:58 -0700

Need to ask a question by email? That's easy too. Use Ask a Librarian, or find your favorite librarian's email address on Library Staff.

Help from Tutors

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:15 -0700

Tutors are available to you both in person and online, and the service is free! Cascade, Sylvania, Rock Creek and Southeast Center each have a tutoring center with excellent in-person tutors in most subjects. If you're working on a paper, the writing tutors are popular (so don't wait until the last minute)! You can get more information about each campuses hours and locations at the links below:

Cascade Campus Learning Center

Rock Creek Student Learning Center

Tutoring at Southeast Center

Tutoring at Sylvania

Or get started working with PCC's online tutors:

eTutoring at PCC

Chat or Text a Librarian for Help

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:30 -0700

You can chat with a PCC librarian any time you see the PCC Ask A Librarian chat widget on any of the library's pages (like the PCC Library home page) or in a subject guide like this one. You can also get to us through AIM, Yahoo!, or Google Talk.

AIM/Y!: pcclib
Google Talk: pcclib@gmail

You can also text a librarian for help at:
971-259-TEXT (8398)

Need help when the library isn't open? Chat with an L-Net librarian 24-7.

Helping Yourself!

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:44 -0700

PCC Library has lots of resources that you can use on your own. You may already know that about the quiet study spaces as well as study rooms you can reserve.

Citing sources is another way you can help yourself! PCC Library has all the information you need on Cite Sources. The library also has video tutorials on everything from how to develop a topic for your paper to figuring out how to incorporate those citations. You'll find those videos, as well as information about using e-resources, at Tutorials and Handouts.