Primary Source Spotlight: Dance
Curated collections of LOC.gov links
- Collection Spotlight: Katherine Dunham Selections
- Primary Source Spotlight: Martha Graham
- Today in History: George M. Cohan
- Today in History: Bob Fosse
- Today in History: Stravinsky & Balanchine
Library collections
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- Larry Colwell Dance Photographs, 1944-1966
- Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev
- Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection
- Martha Graham at the Library of Congress
- Bronislava Nijinska Collection
Online Exhibitions
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 50 Years Cultural Ambassador to the World
- American Ballet Theatre: Touring the Globe for 75 Years
- Politics and the Dancing Body
- Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929
Featured Image: Julian and Julienne
Dancers portraits by Carl Van Vechten
Dance films & streaming webcasts
David Fullard: The Art of Photographing Dance
Topics in Chronicling America
- Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes
- Lady Constance Stewart Richardson
- Paul Swan
- Maria Tallchief
- Eva Tanguay
- Flappers
- Ghost Dance Movement
Special Presentation: Tap Dance in America
Learning from the Source: Science Radium Romp primary source lesson
Documenting Dance: The Making of Appalachian Spring Library of Congress Magazine September/October 2014 pp. 10-15
Tap Dance in American: A Short History article by Constance Valis Hill
Library blog posts
- All That Jazz … and Humor, Opera, Dance Music . . . Timeless Stories from the Library
- Cambodian-American Heritage Dancers with Chum Ngek Ensemble Folklife Today
- Capoeira: From Crime to Culture In Custodia Legis
- Merce Cunningham, Dance Great, Dies at 90 Timeless Stories from the Library
- Dance! Folklife Today
- A Dance for the Birthday of the Buddha Folklife Today
- Dance, Manhood and Warfare Amongst the Acholi People of Northern Uganda 4 Corners of the World
- Dance Moves in D.C. and Beyond Picture This
- Dance in Our Special Collections In the Muse
- Dancing the Danzón: Hispanic Heritage Month Timeless Stories from the Library
- Discovering the Music within our Dance collections: Composer Lucia Dlugoszewski and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company In The Muse
- Documenting Dance: The Making of “Appalachian Spring” Timeless Stories from the Library
- Find Dance in Copyright Copyright: Creativity at Work
- Helen McGehee (1921-2020), a commemoration in pictures In the Muse
- James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894 Folklife Today
- Kalanidhi Dance Company Performs Kuchipudi Dance Folklife Today
- Let’s Dance! Timeless Stories from the Library
- The Masquerade King and the Regulation of Dancing in Sweden In Custodia Legis
- James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894 Folklife Today
- Omaha Hethu’shka Society Songs and Dances Folklife Today
- The Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam Folklife Today
- They Start the Victrola and Go Dancing Around Now See Hear!
- Urban Folklife, Urban Artistry: breaking down the complexities of urban dance with Junious Brickhouse Folklife Today
- Ven a Bailar Bachata! In the Muse
- Wuza Wuza Music and Dance Ensemble from Ghana