The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts > Collections > Circulating Collections

Dance Collection:

Miriam and Harold Steinberg Reading Room

Telephone:
(212) 870-1627

Location:
1st Floor: Videos, DVDs
2nd Floor: Reference Desk, Books, Periodicals, Scores, Clippings

Catalog:
LEO is the catalog of the Circulating Dance Collection and the Branch Libraries.

Overview:
The circulating dance collection consists of an extensive array of books which illuminate all aspects of theatrical and non-theatrical forms of dance. The collection is especially strong in dance history, dance instruction, and biographies of leading dance figures. The collection is further enhanced by periodicals, scores, commercial videos and DVDs, and easy-to-use clipping files of newspaper and magazine articles arranged by persons, subjects and titles of individual dance works. In addition, the collection contains material on related subjects including anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, exercise, mime, the aesthetics of movement, the psychology of non-verbal communication, dance design (costumes, scenery, and lighting,) and rites and ceremonies in which dance is an element. Dance-related sports and movement activities including figure skating, gymnastics, synchronized swimming, fencing, yoga, and martial arts are also represented. The dance circulating collection also has standard reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries on dance and related subjects to aid the researcher in the field.

Books:
Material on all forms of dance
Related fields: anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, exercise, mime, the aesthetics of movement, the psychology of non-verbal communication, dance design (costumes, scenery, and lighting), rites and ceremonies in which dance is an element.
Dance-related sports and movement activities, including figure skating, gymnastics, and synchronized swimming. Also yoga, martial arts (very limited).

File Material:
Clippings on persons, titles and subjects.

Finding Aids:

Dance

Folk Dance