California Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE)
www.artsed411.org
California Alliance for Arts Education, a coalition of statewide organizations, arts providers, businesses and individuals, is the united voice in California promoting visual and performing arts as an integral part of the core curriculum for the youth of our state. California Alliance for Arts Education publishes its "Alliance" newsletter with timely articles on issues, projects and events supporting visual and performing arts education.

California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD)
www.cahperd.org
The mission of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) is to promote healthful lifestyles through quality education for all populations and provide leadership to school, community and statewide programs in the areas of health, physical education, recreation, dance and other movement-related programs. CAHPERD is an educational organization which will achieve its mission by supporting, encouraging, and providing assistance to members statewide, as they initiate, develop, conduct and promote health, physical education, recreation, dance and other movement-related programs.

The California Arts Project (TCAP)
http://csmp.ucop.edu/tcap/
The California Arts Project is the state's Subject Matter Project in Visual and Performing Arts, one of nine such Projects established by SB 1882. The central mission of TCAP is to deepen teachers' knowledge of dance, theatre, music, and visual arts, and to enhance instructional strategies for teaching these four disciplines to California's students, pre-kindergarten through post-secondary. Click above to find out about TCAP's various Institutes for teachers held each summer at TCAP Sites throughout the state.

Teaching Arts
www.TeachingArts.org
Kern County Superintendent of Schools and San Bernadino County Superintendent of Schools, in collaboration with the California Department of Education , announce the creation of a California Visual and Performing Arts On-line Resource Center. The vision for this resource center is to assist all K-12 teachers in providing standards-based instruction and to provide resources for teachers and students to use to increase their knowledge and skills in the arts.

Voice Of Dance
www.VoiceofDance.org
Voice of Dance has information news and reviews of current dance performances in the State and throughout the US. You can buy tickets and purchase clothing online too. The Dance Bulletin Boards provide an opportunity for lively discussion and exchange of information. There are job postings, studio listings, auditions, expert advice and much, much more. Instructors and students alike will find this site helpful and informative.

California Arts Council
www.cac.ca.gov
Keep up on what's happening at the CAC for update information, other links, news, programs, calendar, gallery, arts in education and employment opportunities.

California PTA
www.capta.org
Click on the small box at left "Bring back the Arts SMARTS". Includes links to advocacy resources, art research, art resources, community resources, museums, grants and funding sources, etc.

Dancers' Group
www.dancersgroup.org
Dancers' Group, founded in 1982, assists and supports the San Francisco Bay Area's dance community by creating a nexus of resources, expertise, and knowledge. Advocating for the quality, visibility, and vitality of Bay Area dance, they produce events, publications, and other programs and services.

The Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
www.acgov.org/arts/related.htm


NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)
www.ndeo.org
The National Dance Education Organization is an independent nation organization for professionals dedicated to the development and promotion of dance as an art form in education. It provides workshops, newsletters, job opportunites, national arts information, etc. It's office is in Bethesda, MD and has close connections with the US Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dance Notation Bureau (DNB)
www.dancenotation.org/DNB/index.html
The Dance Notation Bureau records dances in a way that will allow them to continue to be performed. DNB documents dance on paper using a symbol system called Labanotation.
DNB has produced and houses scores by artists such as: George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Bill T. Jones,, Doris Humphrey, JosŽ Lim—n, Laura Dean and about 155 others.
The Notation Process:
Works are notated during regular rehearsals. The notator is there through all the rehearsals, recording not only the steps but also any imagery, motivation, and characterization given to the dancers by the choreographer or stager. The completed score provides a blueprint for future stagings of the work. Dance scores function for dance in the same way music scores function for music. They allow each artist to learn the work without being influenced by someone else's artistic interpretation.
In addition to producing the score, which captures the choreography, DNB collects a full range of materials to ensure complete documentation. These materials include:
* videotaped records of specific performances
* music tapes and marked music scores
* production information such as costume, set and light designs
* historical information
* anything else required by a specific dance to ensure future stagers will have the information they need.

New York Public Library Dance Collection
http://catnyp.nypl.org/search~b1o1c1i1p1r1a1
Click on "Research Libraries" and then on "Library for the Performing Arts". The Dance Collection is under "Jerome Robbins Dance Division".
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. These materials are available free of charge, along with a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances. An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts--whether professional or amateur--the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters and photographs.

The Tennessee Association of Dance
www.tennesseedance.org
The Tennessee Association of Dance was founded in 1971 to encourage and support the development of dance in Tennessee.

Cyberdance - Ballet on the Net
www.cyberdance.org
This website covers many dance topics and has a huge listing of other websites related to dance.

Dance Magazine
http://dancemagazine.com
It's updated monthly. Provides email response and opportunity to list your events.

Dance Teacher Magazine
www.dance-teacher.com
Includes teacher features, schools and studios, performance planner, studio business, teaching tools, teach healthy, and dance resources.

Save as: Dance
www.danceusa.org/programs_publications/nipad.htm
SAVE AS: DANCE is a national partnership funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts to advance the ability of dance artists and dance communitites to document and preserve their work and traditions. SAVE AS: DANCE is comprised of the National Initiative to Preserve AmericaÕs Dance (NIPAD), administered at Dance/USA in Washington, DC, and the UCLA National Dance/Media Project, at the Center for Intercultural Performance, in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

New Language of Dance
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/drive/sn26/
It's the easy way to discover what the Language of Dance Centre can do for you. It will take you through all the exciting aspects of Language of Dance (LOD). You can learn about how LOD got started, the courses we provide, the publications we produce and the Labanotation work that we do. You can even take a look at some of the delightfully creative choreography that has been made through LOD at Children's Corner. Membership forms and our publication order form is available for downloading, plus much, much more.

Dance and the Child International
http://education.uregina.ca/daci/
conference link www.daci2006.nl/index.html
Member of Counseil International de la Danse UNESCO Paris. International Annual Conference. For more information you can contact Lucia Matos at daci.2003conference@ig.com.br

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