Dance: Background Info

Start here with this resource:
=> International Encyclopedia of Dance and in print Reference: GV 1585 I586, 6 volumes

International Encyclopedia of Dance REF GV 1585 I586 1998
      This 6 volume set is available online and in print
 

International Dictionary of Ballet REF GV1585 I57 1993 
Biographical Dictionary of Dance REF GV1785 A1 C58 
Dance Medicine & Science Bibliography REF RC1220.D35 S64 2001  
Social Dancing in America REF GV1623G56 2007
Oxford Dictionary of Dance Ref GV1585 C78 2004
International Dictionary of Modern Dance Ref GV1585 B46 1998
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers  Ref GV1785 A1 B74 1999 
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Ref ML 100 G16

Sample Topic: The effect of Martha Graham upon dance in the United States

• Main concepts within this topic:
               Martha Graham and Dance and United States
• Other terms that might apply when search for information on this topic
               Martha Graham
               Dance or dancing or dancers or Modern Dance
               United States or American or America
• Terms you would not enter in a search like this:
               Effect or cause (because all articles will essentially be about effects or causes)
               In, and, the, an, this (skip the little words and go straight to the important stuff)

Sample Search entered in a standard three-box search engine