Dance Resources 

Electronic

International Encyclopedia of Dance - Scholarly encyclopedia of just dance topics.  Any word typed into this db will be related to dance. Also in hard copy.

Oxford Reference [Sources] Premiere - Performance - collection of scholarly online reference sources on the performing arts.

Duke Libraries' subject datbase page for DANCE resources - a group of reference sources and databases potentially covering dance

Books

International Dictionary of Modern Dance.  Lilly Reference GV1585.B46 1998

International Encyclopeid of Dance (hardcopy)

Biographies

Biography Index - Contains more than one million thumbnail biographies from scholarly sources.

Biography and Geneology Master Index - Indexes readily-available biographical reference sources, people from all places, times and occupations.  NO DIRECT INFO HERE (a 2-step source to hard-copy sources).

Music

Grove Encyclopedia of Music - scholarly encyclopedia of music and musicians.  Includes world music and dances