Dance Studies Association, the scholarly umbrella association created in 2017 by combining the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Congress for Research in Dance, has some full-text content on its website under Publications. The Conferences tab includes a Past Conference Proceedings page that has been labeled "under construction" since Feb. 2022, but nonetheless offers some full-text content, which will remain limited to papers 2019 and earlier. (A complete list of conference titles back to 2010 is under Past Conferences.) Presenters' papers from 2020 onward may be published in Dance Research Journal, or in book form: DSA scholarship is now published by university presses (currently University of Michigan) as a series, currently titled Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices (which are not always reflected in the TCU Library catalog under series title). Conference papers prior to the establishment of DSA are available under the previous organizational names. FrogScholar search for DSA content; "Studies in Dance" series
Proceedings of the Society of Dance History Scholars - since the Society is now folded into the Dance Studies Association, along with CORD, the Congress on Research in Dance, some of the Proceedings of the Society of Dance History Scholars are perusable full text at https://dancestudiesassociation.org/conferences - scroll down to "Past Conference Proceedings." Confusingly, current conference proceedings are under " Publications.". The proceedings are abstracted by RILM Abstracts from 1982-2014 (EBSCO Host interface) and the database Proquest Research Library offers summaries of the Society's proceedings from 1998-2014, date selectable -- SDHA Proceedings, 1998-2014, most recent works on top (not full text, but "SFX" links offer an Interlibrary Loan request option).
Conference Proceedings, Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) / New York: New York University - the Congress, also known as CORD," once known as "The Committee on Research in Dance," has a history of conferences both separate and joint (with other scholarly organizations). Conference output accessible through TCU are partly online, partly print:
Online CORD conference content 2007-2016 can be seen through the TCU Library's FrogScholar search engine, or viewed directly through Cambridge Scientific. Currently 2011-2016 is full text; until TCU purchases the Cambridge backfile, 2007-2009 is abstracts (summaries) only. (There is no 2010 content.)
Print holdings at TCU: Dance Research Annual, numbers 12 through 16, 1978 through 1987 (presentation vs. publication dates can vary considerably): four titles. Besides DRA, CORD conference content is also found with searches for "Annual CORD Conference" or "Congress on Research in Dance" / "Committee on Research in Dance" (the earlier name).
CORD's Dance Research Journal may reveal more content: 1969-2019 ; 2008-current, or the earlier title, CORD News, 1969-1974.
National Dance Education Organization / NDEO's conference proceedings have previously been available full text; at the moment, however, only a list of Past Conferences is available on NDEO's website.
Society for Dance Research, out of the UK, is another source for research, e.g. Dance Research: Journal of the Society for Dance Research. A limited array of conference proceedings can be downloaded from the website.
Routledge Dance Studies Reader - this title, published approximately every 10 years, is a source for fine scholarly dance writing. Unfortunately the TCU Library catalog does not show detailed versions of records on these items. Below are the topic lists. Note: some later editions repeat titles from earlier editions, possibly with amendments or updates.
The Routledge Dance studies reader [ebook] / edited by Jens Richard and Yutian Wong. Routledge, 2019. 1 Introduction; Passinho: an introduction; FRE!HEIT: an introduction; Texting: an introduction; Dance studies: an introduction; Structuring dance studies; Part I: Methods and approaches; Part II: Practice and performance; Part III: Dance as embodied ideology; Part IV: Dance on the market and in the media; Part V: formations of the field; Concluding remarks; Notes; Part I Methods and Approaches; 2 Dance history source materials; 3 Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography; 4 Dance studies/cultural studiesIntroduction; Dance and interdisciplinarity; Early cultural studies as intervention; Cultural studies in the United States; Cultural studies in crisis; Dance studies/cultural studies; Notes; 5 Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered; 6 An introduction to dance analysis; 7 At home in the world? The bharatanatyam dancer as transnational interpreter; Orientalism and globality; Tactics of globality: alternatives to orientalism; Notes; 8 Differentiating phenomenology and dance; 9 Epilogue to an epilogue: historicizing the re- in dance reenactment; The situation of the 1980sBeyond impersonation: the baroque as anti-modern; Difference/distance; Translation and history; Space, place, and contiguity; The question of "there" and the production of distance; The fugitive oscillation; Notes; Part II Practice and performance; 10 Grasping practice: reflections on practices of knowing and researching in dance education; Observation I: constellations of teaching; Grasping practice: field and methodological perspective; Practice-as-Research and field of knowledge; (Re)Working knowledge-or teaching with a (natural) science understanding of knowledge; Notes11 I am a dancer; 12 Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts; 13 Getting off the Orient Express; 14 Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla; 15 Cabbages and kings: disability, dance, and some timely considerations; 16 Improvised dance in the reconstruction of THEM; Introduction; Ishmael Houston-Jones: the politics of dancing; "For some reason it still matters"; "I wish I had taken a photo/I could rip it up"; Notes; 17 Staging choreomusical research: : A case study of the historiography of experimental...; Choreomusical research "Through the Body, Through Space"Body memory and embodied music cognition in (and through) dance; Notes; 18 Working out contemporaneity: dance and post-Fordism; Two images of movement; The dance and the walk: two politics of dance; Exploitation of movement; Note; Part III Dance as embodied ideology; 19 In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period; 20 Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity; 21 From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance (2000/1).
The Routledge dance studies reader [ebook] / ed. by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. Also in print, GV1594 R58 2010 - 1. Roots/routes of dance studies / Janet O'Shea -- Part 1. Making dance -- 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon -- 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- 4. Recovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer / Anthea Kraut -- 5. Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in 'Swan Lake, 4 acts' / Vida Midgelow -- 6. Making space, speaking spaces / Carol Brown -- 7. Reflections on new directions in Indian dance / Chandralekha -- 8. What's it worth to ya?: adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris's Puremovement and Shakespeare / Anna B. Scott -- Part II. Performing dance -- 9. I am a dancer / Martha Graham -- 10. Tracing the past: writing history through the body / Ann Cooper Albright -- 11. Cabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations / Adam Benjamin -- 12. Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninon Sevilla / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- 13. Still curious / Emilyn Claid -- Part III. Ways of looking -- 14. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas -- 15. A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century / Janet Lansdale -- 16. Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia J. Novack -- 17. Getting off the Orient Express / Shobana Jeyasingh -- 18. Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel -- 19. Two analyses of "Dancing in the dark" ('The band wagon,' 1953) / Richard Dyer and John Mueller -- Part IV. Locating dance in history and society -- 20. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt -- 21. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- 22. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- 23. Gambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales / Marta E. Savigliano -- 24. Choreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity / Yatin Lin -- 25. Reality check: 'Dancing with the stars' and the American dream / Juliet McMains -- 26. From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance / Pallabi Chakravorty -- Part V. Debating the discipline -- 27. Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- 28. Differentiating phenomenology and dance / Philipa Rothfield -- 29. Dance studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation / Jens Richard Giersdorf -- 30. Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography / Theresa Jill Buckland -- 31. Slamdancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimisation of popular dance / Sherril Dodds -- 32. What is art? / Betty Redfern.
The Routledge dance studies reader [print - Google Books preview available] / [edited by] Alexandra Carter. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. Print only, GV 1594 R68 1998 - Part 1, Making dance / Alexandra Carter -- 2. Choreographers : Dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon – 3. Torse : There are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve – 4. No to spectacle ... / Yvonne Rainer – 5. Pina Bausch : Dance and emancipation / Norbert Servos – 6. Imaginary homelands : Creating a new dance language / Shobana Jeyasingh. Part II, Performing Dance: Introduction / Alexandra Carter – 7. Dancers talking about performance / Barbara Newman – 8. I am a dancer / Martha Graham – 9. A dancing consciousness Rebecca Hilton, Bryan Smith – 10. Spacemaking : Experiences of a virtual body / Susan Kozel. Part III, Reviewing dance: Introduction / Alexandra Carter – 11. Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel – 12. Between description and deconstruction / Roger Copeland – 13. Oh, That Pineapple Rag! / Arlene Croce – 14. Spring : Ashtons Symphonic Variations in America / Alastair Macaulay. Part IV, Studying dance - conceptual concerns : Introduction / Alexandra Carter – 15. What is art? / Betty Redfern – 16. A vulnerable glance : Seeing dance through phenomenology / Sondra Fraleigh – 17. Dance history source materials / June Layson – 18. Embodying difference : Issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond – 19. An introduction to dance analysis / Janet Adshead – 20. Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus – 21. Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster. Part V, Locating dance in history and society: Introduction / Alexandra Carter – 22. Myths of origin / Andrée Grau – 23. In pursuit of the sylph : Ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt – 24. Diaghilev's cultivated audience / Lynn Garafola – 25. Women writing the body : Let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster – 26. Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life : Meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone. Part VI, Analysing dance: Introduction / Alexandra Carter – 27. Dance and gender : Formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan, Helen Thomas – 28. Nijinsky : Modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsey Burt – 29. Dances of death : Germany before Hitler / Susan Manning – 30. Mark Morris : The body and what it means / Joan Acocella – 31. Dance and music video : Some preliminary observations / Theresa Buckland – 32. Two analyses of Dancing in the Dark (The Band Wagon, 1953) / Richard Dyer, John Mueller.
Dance: Current Selected Research / University of Delaware Libraries, Museum and Press [direct link]. First available as a print publication by AMS Press, ca1989-2012 (back issues are available in the library's main stacks at call number GV1580 D2317), this valuable publication has been taken up by the University of Delaware which made it freely available. However, there seem to be no entries past 2018. (Note: there is a gap between 2012 and 2018, vol. 9 of this publication, when this title was not being published.)
The Dance Data Project, a nonprofit organization compiling a great variety of data on the world of dance, is dedicated primarily to establishing male-female parity in the "dance industry," especially ballet. It does so in large part through generating in-depth statistical reports on various conditions across dance companies and other sites of dancer employment. DDP offers a newsletter that allows interested parties to keep up with the latest projects, as well as releases of reports on various themes.
