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
- Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev
- Bronislava Nijinska Collection
- Martha Graham at the Library of Congress
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
Ballet Russes Serge Diaghilev (1910-1916) selected newspaper articles
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 . . . Library of Congress blog May 10, 2011
- Dance! Folklife Today April 19, 2016
- A Dance for the Birthday of the Buddha Folklife Today May 12, 2016
- Dance, Manhood and Warfare Amongst the Acholi People of Northern Uganda 4 Corners of the World November 29, 3016
- Dance Moves in D.C. and Beyond Picture This February 2, 2017
- Discovering the Music within our Dance collections: Composer Lucia Dlugoszewski and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company In The Muse September 9, 2016
- Find Dance in Copyright Copyright: Creativity at Work March 4, 2022
- Helen McGehee (1921-2020), a commemoration in pictures In the Muse May 10, 2021
- James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894 November 17, 2017
- Kalanidhi Dance Company Performs Kuchipudi Dance Folklife Today March 21, 2019
- The Masquerade King and the Regulation of Dancing in Sweden In Custodia Legis March 16, 2017
- Omaha Hethu’shka Society Songs and Dances Folklife Today November 26, 2014
- The Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam Folklife Today, March 25, 2019.
- Urban Folklife, Urban Artistry: breaking down the complexities of urban dance with Junious Brickhouse Folklife Today February 14, 2017