Guide to Resource Materials
The Dance Resources Center
The Dance Resources Center (DRC) is located in Room 8, downstairs in the Gittings Building. The DRC houses a collection of books, magazines, and articles on dance and related topics. It is also a good place to study or relax if you need to get away. Dance graduate students can be issued a key to the DRC.
The Dance Resources Center has acquired books, magazines, and articles through the generous contributions of several local donors. The four main book shelves contain the collections of Gertrude Shurr, Virginia Robinson, Rosamund Spicer, and Susan Bovre.
The books are indexed on cards in a metal file box, with the cards filed alphabetically by title. The books are coded with colored dots, according to which collection they are from. The Shurr Collection has green dots, the Robinson Collection blue, the Spicer Collection has orange dots, and the Bovre Collection red. The number on the dot corresponds to the shelf where the book is located. Please return books to their correct shelves! Books in these collections may be taken from the Resources Center by signing them out on the check out sheets provided.
There is a large collection of articles filed in the DRC on a variety of topics. Categories in the main file include Anthropology and Art, Gender Issues, Physiological and Psychological Research in the Arts, and Rock and Roll: Historical Perspectives. The Expanded Education file contains publications by NASD, the NEA, and many articles dealing with dance in grades K - 12, as well as in college level programs.
These files are indexed within each category by the title of the article. To use the file collection, choose the general category you are interested in, and browse through the titles listed on the index sheet for that category. The index sheet will tell you the number of the folder in which that article can be found. Articles in the DRC may only be examined in house.
The DRC also has back issues of some magazines, including Dance Magazine (1957 - 1991), Ballet News (1982 - 1986), some issues of Ballet Review, Dance Perspectives, and Kinesiology for Dance, and a few of the CORD publications. Copies of Master's Project Reports and Theses from previous UA grads are also located in the DRC. There are also copies of papers written by grads and undergraduate students in dance related classes such as Theory and Philosophy of Dance and Human Movement in the Arts.