Special Topics in Dance Research: Introduction to Dance History (Rossen)
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Biography Resource Center
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The Oxford dictionary of dance / Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell
Main Reference Call number: 792.803 C887o
also available electronically
Fifty contemporary choreographers / Martha Bremser ; with an introduction by Deborah Jowitt.
Main Reference Call number: 792.82092 B836f
International dictionary of modern dance / with a preface by Don McDonagh ; editor, Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf ; contributing editor, Glynis Benbow-Niemier.
Main Reference Call number: 792.803 I615
International dictionary of ballet / editor, Martha Bremser ;Assirtnat editor, Larraine Nicholas ; picture editor, Leanda Shrimpton.
Main Reference Call number: 792.803 I61
International encyclopedia of dance : a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. / founding editor, Selma Jeanne Cohen ; area editors, George Dorris ... [et al.] ; consultants, Thomas F. Kelly ... [et al.
Main Reference Call number: L 792.6203 I61
also available electronically
Additional Dance Research Resources
Northwestern University Library Research Guide to Dance
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Chicago / Turabian Style (An online guide from University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center)
The Chicago manual of style, 15th edition, 2003 is located in Main Reference as well as many other locations at call number 655.2 C53 2003
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