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Find extensive links on all aspects of dance from this New Zealand-based site. The categories on dance and new media include links to sites on dance-related technologies, digital dance/media, software for dance, dance video, dance film and CD-ROMs.

Start here for an easy and useful overview of dance information on the Web. Artlynx editor Richard Finkelstein has created a comprehensive gateway site for finding Web sites on dance. This meta site provides 28 categories of dance links. Categories unique to this site include "Dancer Health" and "This Month in Dance History." The site suffers from a few too many dead links in some areas, for example within the section on "Funding Sources." The list of links to professional, scholarly, educational, and discipline-based organizations is useful for academic dance programs. Other categories of note include "African Dance" and "University Listings."

Ballet.co.uk is a large and attractive site with many articles, links, and images. This free online magazine includes interviews, current news, performances this week, and discussion postings. Pages with links to companies, dancers and schools have a UK and European focus. Links to dance reviews in the global press are updated daily. The reviews database, with its advanced search option, is particularly useful for reading past reviews of dance performances from around the world.

Introductory pages with short articles on the dancer, techniques, and the history of ballet are provided. The site is useful for its daily news updates from international sources.

View more than 2,000 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world from this site created bu Dick Heuff, former head of the audiovisual department of the Netherlands Dance Theatre. This site is useful for its international perspective on dance and sites are provided within geographic directories. Take note of the links in the "Dance and Technologies" section.

Included here are feature articles, reviews, several interviews, a small photo gallery, and selections from the best of their forum discussions. Forums, on many dance styles, have more than 75,000 postings.

Culture Kiosque covers international cultural events with news, commentary, and information on the arts, culture, and entertainment in North America and Europe. This appealing site contains calendars of featured and seasonal events. The selected articles and book and performance reviews are worth a visit to this site. The primary writer on dance for Culture Kiosk is Patricia Boccadoro, who also writes for The Guardian and Dancing Times. Articles are available in English, French, and German.

A collection of more than 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet can be found here. Visit this site to view long lists of links on events, auditions, competitions, research, FAQs, technology, newsgroups, chat sites, articles, reviews, magazines, summer programs, colleges, and schools.

A well-designed and easy-to-use comprehensive site with lists of ballet and contemporary dance companies, choreographic centers, dance presenters and performance listings, organizations, funding resources, schools, bulletin boards, mailing lists, newsgroups, magazines and other information resources. This site was developed by The Dance Centre, a not-for-profit society serving individual members and professional dance companies since 1986 in Vancouver, Canada.

Dance.net promotes community forums for students, dancers, instructors, coaches, choreographers, and studio owners. Community-building features in their software include the ability to comment on almost any message, image and video uploading, member-created polls and feature articles, jobs listings, moderators, and more.

The "Flash Reviews" on this site are one of its most popular features. These dance performance reviews are often posted the day after a show. Many of the past reviews include links to video clips. Search by keyword "video" to find clips. See also the "Insider Web Picks" and "Vignettes" by dance critic Tobi Tobias. Dance Insider Online offers a guide to summer schools and other useful advice for dancers and dance students. Readers may subscribe to its free e-mail newsletter.

Dance Links is perhaps the best known and most highly linked to dance site on the Internet. Online since before 1994, it has been worked on at various times by dance videographer Amy Reusch, James White, and Jon Wright. Major categories of links include: Ballet Companies, Modern/Contemporary Dance Companies, More Dance Companies (Flamenco, Tap, Butoh, Multimedia, Jazz, World, etc.), Dance Presenters and Performance Listings, Newsgroups, Dance Publications, Dance FAQs etc., Dance Organizations, Coalitions, etc. Dance Schools, Dancers, Dance Web Indices. Pointe shoe manufacturer Gaynor Minden donates the hosting of the site.

Contains Record sources, textbooks, videos, leader names, websites, etc. about square dances, contra dances, quadrilles, trios, couple mixers, Sicilian circles, line dances, solo dances, no-partner dances, etc.

The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

This site contains lots of useful links to scores of web resources.

Many links to more than 30 styles of dance from Aztec to zydeko are provided in this extremely useful directory. Each category listed provides a good collection of links on a particular style or specialized information about an area of dance. This may be the best place to start looking for information on many different dance styles.

Voice of Dance is a well-organized and well-designed site with current news, directories, video clips, and an extensive gallery of ballet and modern dance images. It includes references to newspaper reviews with links back to the articles. Its up-to-date performance calendars for selected events in more than 20 North American and European cities is unique.

Provides links to more than 30 dance style categories from ballet to waltz and from break dance to tango.