Resources
No.43
January 2005
 
    

International Association for Sports InformationPre-Olympic Congress, Thessaloniki, GreeceAugust 6-11, 2004
 
IASI Cyber Café Information Guide
Dance & Movement Education
Core Resources

Databases
Index to Dance Periodicals (NY: G.K. Hall) and the
This catalog for resources on dance is produced by the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection. It is available in paper format as the annual Index to Dance Periodicals or freely available from the New York Public Library’s website. http://catnyp.nypl.org/search~S3/ . The focus of this database is on works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in many languages that are available in print format or other media. This is a comprehensive source for dance periodicals, books, audiovisual material, essays and other resources. Access is by author (individuals, or dance companies), title, and subject (including choreographic work).

SPORTDiscus
Updated monthly, SPORTDiscus contains over 650,000 records (from 1830 to date), to periodical articles, books, book chapters and essays, conference papers, reports, videotapes and URLs to fulltext documents/sources. Subject coverage includes all aspects of sports sciences, physical education, health and recreation. Each record is assigned a level of difficulty: A) advanced (scientific research), (I) intermediate (based on scientific research but easier to understand), and (B) basic (popular and easy to read).
The University of Oregon, Kinesiology Publications records from 1949 to date are included along with the sociology of sport records from the discontinued SIRLS database, other projects, and from the major indexing partner, the Australia National Sport Information Centre, 1987 to date. Other databases incorporated into the SPORTDiscus database include:
For SPORTDiscus subscription information see http://www.sirc.ca/products/sportdiscus.cfm

Searching Tips:
SPORTDiscus has over 5000 records on many aspects of dance and over 1100 on movement education. See the SIRCThesaurus (included with the subscription to SPORTDiscus) for the many descriptors under the word(s)
  • DANCE (AEROBIC DANCE, DISCO DANCING, JAZZ DANCE, MODERN DANCE, SOCIAL DANCE ) or
  • other international terms: KABUKI, LEGONG or PASO DOBLEØ LABANOTATION, MOVEMENT EDUCATION, CHOREOGRAPHY (over 450 records under this descriptor)
Combine DANCE with other descriptors, e.g. INJURY, PROGRAM (use this term for curriculum), or a specific countryFor other search protocols see the Basic Search Guide to SPORTDiscus on EBSCOHost at: http://www.iasi.org/guides/index.html

ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The ERIC database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents (ED prefixes) and journal articles (EJ prefixes). ERIC has over 2880 records on many aspects of dance and almost 1000 on movement education. Nearly 100,000 ERIC documents published from 1993 are accessible electronically through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service, http://www.edrs.com/. Many academic libraries have a complete ERIC document (ED prefixes) collection in microfiche. Documents may be purchased separately. The ERIC database is freely available on the internet, http://www.eric.ed.gov/searchdb/index.html

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
http://www.isinet.com/products/citation/ahci/
A&HCI is part of the ISI’s Web of Science databases where over 1,130 arts and humanities journal articles are indexed and their bibliographies cited. This index enables researchers to conduct multidisciplinary searches to uncover hidden subject relationships. Relevant citations are also added from the ISI’s 7,000 science and social sciences journals.

Web Resources
ArtsLynx International Arts Resources: Dance http://www.artslynx.org/dance/
DancePages Directory http://www.newdance.com/newdance-ns.htm
Dansenet http://www.dansenet.com/
France-Danse.com http://www.france-danse.com/
National Resource Centre for Dance http://www.surrey.ac.uk/NRCD/
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance/

Key National & International Organizations
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance AAHPERD http://www.aahperd.org/
American Dance Guild http://www.americandanceguild.org/
American Dance Therapy Association http://www.adta.org/
American Physical Therapy Association Performing Arts Special Interest Group http://www.orthopt.org/sigs/performing_arts_sig/
Arts Education Partnership http://www.aep-arts.org/
Asociación Espanola de Medicina de la Danza http://www.asemeda.com/
Association for Dance Movement Therapy UK http://www.admt.org.uk/
Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation http://www.achper.org.au/
Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance / L'Association canadienne pour la santé, l'éducation physique, le loisir et la danse http://www.cahperd.ca/
Comité d’études et d’informations pédagogiques de l’éducation physique et du sport http://www.revue-eps.com/
Congress on Research in Dance http://www.cordance.org/
Dance UK http://www.danceuk.org/default800.htm
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science http://www.iadms.org/
International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance http://www.ichpersd.org/
International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association http://www.ismeta.org/
Laban http://www.laban.org/index.phtml
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies http://www.limsonline.org/
National Dance Association http://www.aapherd.org/nda/
National Dance Education Organization http://www.ndeo.org/
Physical Education Association of the UK http://www.pea.uk.com/
Physical Education New Zealand http://www.penz.org.nz/
Schweizerischer Berufsverband für Tanz und Gymnastik/Association professionelle Suisse de la Danse et du Mouvement http://www.sbtg.ch/
Society for Dance Research http://www.dancebooks.co.uk/sdr/
TanzMedizine Deutschland e.V http://www.tamed.de/

Key Serials
ACHPER healthy lifestyles journal (Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation)
American Journal of Dance Therapy (American Dance Therapy Association)
British journal of teaching physical education (Physical Education Association of the United Kingdom)
Dance Chronicle (Marcel Dekker)
Dance Magazine (Dancing Masters of America, Inc)
Dance Research (Society for Dance Research)
Dance Research Journal (Committee on Research in Dance)
EPS, Education physique et sport (Comité d’études et d’informations pédagogiques de l’éducation physique et du sport)
ICHPER-SD Journal (International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance)
International journal of physical education / Internationale Zeitschrift für Sportpädagogik (Verlag K. Hofman)
Journal of Dance Medicine and Science (International Association for Dance Medicine & Science)
Journal of Dance Education (National Dance Education Organization)
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance JOPERD (Pub by AAHPERD)
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education JTPE (Human Kinetics Publishers)
Motor Control (Human Kinetics Publishers)
Movement Studies: a Journal of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LBIMS)
New Zealand Physical Educator / Te reo kori Aotearoa (Leisure Publications for the Physical Education New Zealand)
Physical and Health Education Journal (Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance)
La Recherche en danse (Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne)
Research quarterly for exercise and sport (AAHPERD)
Sportunterricht (Deutscher Sportlehrerverand)
Tanz-Journal (Kieser Verlag)
Teaching Elementary Physical Education (Human Kinetics Publishers)
UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology (University of California, Los Angeles. Dept of Dance)




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