CSM Library: Dance: Finding Articles

Best Databases for Dance

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JSTOR
JSTOR provides a full text archive of articles from scholarly journals in many disciplines (Art, Business, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences and more), as well as access to a large images collection.
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library's 3500 full text periodicals - scholarly, trade and popular – cover subjects from business and political science to literature and psychology.

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Dance Journals

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American Journal of Dance Therapy
Dance Therapy / Psychology
Dance Chronicle
Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with this rapidly changing field. It covers a wide variety of topics, including dance and music, theater, film, literature, painting, and aesthetics. Offering the best from both established dance historians and the new generation of dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal source for those who love dance, both past and present. Dance Chronicle has featured unique articles on the Bedaya-Serimpi dances of Java and the dancing choirboys of Seville Cathedral. Other, broader articles have presented studies on Renaissance dance, Baroque dance, romantic ballet, and dancing for Broadway, Hollywood, and television.
Dance Magazine
A look at today's exciting world of dance, color feaures of the most talked about companies and performers, dance news, reviews of performances, dance books, films and TV, and more.
Dance Research : The Journal of the Society for Dance Research
Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research is essential reading for those involved in the study and practice of dance. Dance Research is edited and published in Britain with the assistance of a distinguished group of editorial consultants based in Europe and the USA. The journal provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary dance research and contains a section of comprehensive book and journal reviews.
Dance Research Journal
Dance Research Journal, a biannual publication of The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), is oriented primarily toward historical and critical theory of dance. DRJ features articles, book reviews, research, and dialogues which span disciplines including anthropology, education, pedagogy, gender and sexuality, criticism, intercultural studies, and somatics. The journal also reports on scholarly conferences, archives, and other projects of interest to the field. DRJ encourages interdisciplinary approaches to dance and welcomes scholars in dance studies and related fields.
National Dance Society Journal
Official publication of the National Dance Society. The National Dance Society Journal (NDSJ) is a juried annual publication that collects original reports of empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical articles, applied research, methodological articles, case studies, and invited targeted articles.