Resources

Resource Section 

NYS Dance Standards

Arts Assessment for Learning

daCi, an association dedicated to dance for children and youth.

National Dance Education Organization Standards

Jacob's Pillow

Arts Achieve

Literature on Education

• Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

• Feminism is for EVERYBODY by bell hooks

• Art as Experience by John Dewey

• History of American Education by Daivd Boers

• School: The Story of American Public Education by James D. Anderson, Larry Cuban, Carl F.Kaestle, and Diane Ravitch

• Who's in My Classroom? by Gess LeBlanc

• Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory Research and Practice by Nyama McCarthy-Brown

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond

• Teaching Dance as Art in Education by Brenda Pugh McCutchen

• Laying New Ground: Uprooting White Privilege and Planting Seeds of Equity and Inclusion by Crystal U. Davis

• Creating Liberatory Possibilities Together: Reculturing Dance Teacher Certification Through Emergent Strategy by Alexia Buono and Crystal U. Davis

Literature on Dance

• Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation by Jaun Flores

• The Ballet Companion by Eliza Gaynor Minden

• Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora by Joanna Dee Das

• The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography on Pearl Primus by Murray Schwartz and Peggy Schwartz

• Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty First Century edited by Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R. A. Jones, and Wendy Oliver

Research:

• Library of Congress

• New York Public Library

• Hunter College Library

• The Kennedy Center

• The National Arts Education

Costumes and supplies websites:

• Discount Dance Supplies

• Just For Kix

• All About Dance

Performing Venues:

• Lincoln Center

• Symphony Space

• Apollo Theater

• El Museo del Barrio

• Teatro La Tea

• New York City Center

• Brooklyn Academy of Music