3.4 Where do I find specific danceforms?
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This article is from the Dance FAQ, by eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) with numerous contributions by others.
3.4 Where do I find specific danceforms?
Here are some pointers to web sites and other information sources about
specific danceforms, not necessarily partner dance or social dance.
**Belly dance**
There is a mailing list (3.3) and a web site
http://cie-2.uoregon.edu/bdance/
.
**Breakdancing**
I only know of this web site:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~bock/bd/bd.html
**Carolina Shag**
A page for Shag dancing, specifically around Atlanta GA.
http://www.mindspring.com/~stancom/shag.html
[stan mislow stancom@mindspring.com ]
**Clogging**
A web page maintained by Julie Mangin jmangin@nal.usda.gov
http://www.access.digex.net/~jmangin/
**Contra dancing**
There is a web site: http://www.voicenet.com/~squeeze/contras.html , a
newsgroup news:rec.folk-dancing and several mailing lists; section
(3.3) .
**Flamenco**
There are several web sites devoted to Flamenco dancing and guitar
playing; a good list can be found on
http://www.rpi.edu/~ruberd/dancelnk.html
. There is a mailing list, too (3.3) .
**Folk and Contra Dancing**
A good collection of contra dance links:
http://www.voicenet.com/~squeeze/contras.html
There is a newsgroup rec.folk-dancing and several mailing lists
**Lindy Hop**
The World Lindy Hop Federation:
http://www.halcyon.com/lindyhop/WLHF/wlhfa.html
and the Archives of Early Lindy Hop
http://www.mcn.org/a/lindyhop
maintained by judyp@mcn.org (Judy Pritchett) .
There is a mailing list (3.3) .
**Line dancing**
This site contains a lot of line dance information, and it points to
many other sites.
http://www.io.org/~rfielder/CWLinks.html
For a line dancing mailing list, see (3.3) . Here is an archive
of line dances. A line dance web site:
http://www2.cybernex.net/~cowboy/index.html
**Performance dance, including ballet and modern**
There are many pages related to performance dance (ballet, modern
dance, tap, etc). The following is the most complete collection of
links:
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~jswhite/dance_links.html
.
There is a newsgroup (3.1) and a mailing list (3.3) for ballet and
modern.
**Polka**
There is a newsgroup alt.music.polka and a web site
http://www.polkanet.com/
.
**Sacred Dance**
The Sacred Dance Guild maintains a website at the following URL:
http://www.us.net/sdg
The Sacred Dance Guild is dedicated to dance as spiritual expression
for:
Enrichment of personal devotion and prayer.
-- Connectedness within the community at worship.
-- Acceptance and Expansion of relationships with God and others.
-- Disciplined Growth of the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
-- Creative Discoveries within the art form and in its relevance to
the other arts in religion.
Scott A. "Scotty" Ward Scotty@US.Net or sward@us.net ,
Secretary/Treasurer, Potomac Chapter Sacred Dance Guild
**Swing Dance**
The DC Swing Dance Server
http://catalog.com/meyer/swing.html
and the Cornell server
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/aswin//SwingDancing/swing_dancing.html
are your best sources of information; swing is discussed on a lot on
rec.arts.dance . Here is a national list of swing dance teachers:
http://www.javanet.com/~stefan/dance/directory.html
.
**Tango**
There is a mailing list (3.3) . This is the Tango Server:
http://litwww.epfl.ch/tango/
. The site
http://www2.csn.net/dtango7
also contains articles about tango.
**Tap**
See
http://www.hahnemann.edu/tap/
. There is a mailing list (3.3) .
**Vintage dancing**
There is a web site
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~vfack/ihdp/
and a somewhat related newsgroup alt.music.ragtime . Vintage dancing in
http://www.best.com/~lavolta/dance/
the San Francisco Bay Area.
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