Pick from the following categories:
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Jazz / Tap / Breakdance/
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Liturgical
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Humorous
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Experimental / Cross-Media / Border Crossers / Vertical, etc.
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World / Ethnic / Historical Performance Companies
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Circus Dance
- Showdance (showgirl revue)
JAZZ / TAP / BREAKDANCING / SHOWDANCE (Los Vegas or Follies Begere style showgirl revue)
- Jazz
- American Dance Machine
- Ballet Hispanico – New York City, NY, USA
- Les Ballets jazz de Montréal – Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
- City Dance Corps – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Columbia City Jazz Company – Columbia, SC, USA
- ContempraDance Theatre – Wayne, PA, USA
- Decidely Jazz Danceworks
- Don’t Quit Your Day Job – Marin County, CA, USA
- Exclamation Dance Company – Houston, TX, USA
- Houston Metropolitan Dance Center – Houston, TX, USA
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
- Interweave Dance Theatre – Boulder, CO, USA
- Jazz & Spirit Dance Theatre of Detroit – Detroit, MI, USA
- JazzAntiqua
- Jazzart Dance Theatre – Cape Town, Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
- Joel Hall Dancers – Chicago, IL, USA
- Jump Rhythm Jazz Project – Evanston, IL, USA
- Miami Univeristy Dance Theatre – Miami, FL, USA
- Odyssey Dance Utah – Orem, UT, USA
- Off Jazz Dance Company – Nice, FRANCE
- Pontani Sisters – Titusville, NJ, USA
- The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company – Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- River North Dance Company – Chicago, IL, USA
- R.P.M. Dance – Orlando, FL, USA
- Savage Jazz Dance Company – Oakland, CA, USA
- Spectrum Dance Theater – Seattle?, WA, USA
- Tapestry Dance Company – Tap/Ballet/Jazz hybrid
- The YADA Dance Company – MALTA
- Tap [another excellent tap dance index is located here: www.tapdance.org]
- American Tap Dance Foundation
- City Dance Corps – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Don’t Quit Your Day Job – Marin County, CA, USA
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Interweave Dance Theatre – Boulder, CO, USA
- Jazz Tap Center – Israel
- Jump Rhythm Jazz Project – Evanston, IL, USA
- Miami Univeristy Dance Theatre – Miami, FL, USA
- Raw Metal Dance Company – Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
- St. Louis Strutters & Co. – Performing in the style of the 1940s & 1950s – St. Louis, MO, USA
- Tapestry Dance Company (Tap/Ballet/Jazz hybrid)
- World Beats-Roxane Butterfly
- Breakdancing / Street Dance
- KR3Ts: Keep Rising To The Top – New York City, NY, USA
EXPERIMENTAL / CROSS MEDIA / INTER-ARTS / BORDER CROSSING
- Aerial/Vertical Dance
- Acrobatic Dance
- Experimental New Media
- Improvisatory
- Integrated Abilities (Disabled/Abled)
- Inter-Arts/Collaborative
- Movement Theater / Physical Theater
- Site Specific
- Aerial/Vertical Dance
- A-WOL Dance Collective – Portland, OR, USA
- AMEBA Acrobatic & Aerial Dance Company – Chicago, IL, USA
- AirDance New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Alban Elved Dance Company – Winston-Salem, NC & New York City, NY, USA
- Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company – Capital Federal, ARGENTINA
- Capacitor – Oakland/San Francisco, CA, USA
- Cycropia Aerial Dance – Madison, WI, USA
- Frequent Flyers Productions
- Orts Dance Theatre – Tuscon, AZ, USA
- Project Bandaloop – Oakland, CA, USA
- Provisional Danza – Madrid, SPAIN
- Spinal Chord Projects – Glasgow, SCOTLAND
- STREB/Ringside – Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Acrobatic Dance
- AMEBA Acrobatic & Aerial Dance Company – Chicago, IL, USA
- Experimental New Media
- Capacitor – Oakland/San Francisco, CA, USA
- Carol Brown Dances – London, ENGLAND
- Orts Dance Theatre – Tuscon, AZ, USA
- Palindrome Inter-media Performance Group
- Tasdance
- Troika Ranch – New York, NY, USA
- Improvisatory
- The Body Cartography Project – Minneapolis, MN, USA/Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
- Touch Compass Dance Co. (contact improv)
- Improvisation Plus+ Festival – Washington, DC, USA
- Rosy Simas Dance Projects – Minneapolis, MN, USA
- …some dancers and musicians… – Epping Forest, ENGLAND
- Integrated Abilities [disabled/abled]:
- Anjali Dance Company – Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK
- AXIS Dance Company
- Touch Compass Dance Co.
- Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels
- Danza Mobile – Seville, SPAIN
- Infinity Dance Theater – New York City, NY, USA
- Signdance Collective – Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS & London, UK
- Inter-Arts Collaborative
- Alban Elved Dance Company – Winston-Salem, NC & New York City, NY, USA
- AlienNation Co. – Houston, TX and Columbia, OH, USA
- Ballet Magique – Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- Capacitor – Oakland/San Francisco, CA, USA
- Carol Brown Dances – London, ENGLAND
- Cie. Toula Limnaios – Berlin, GERMANY
- Grupo Cena 11 Cia. de Dança – Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, BRAZIL
- Lelavision – Seattle, WA, USA
- On The Boards Contemporary Performance
- Movement Theater / Physical Theater
- ADEKWHAT – Stockholm, SWEDEN
- Ballet Magique – Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- CoisCéim Dance Theatre – Dublin, IRELAND
- Erika Akoh Theatre Mouvement – Atsugi City, Kanagawa, JAPAN
- FOURKLOR – Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
- Frantic Assembly – London, UK
- Gabrielle Lansner & Company – New York City, NY, USA
- Pontine Movement Theater
- Site Specific
- Ascendance – Leeds, UK
- The Body Cartography Project – Minneapolis, MN, USA/Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
- Boris Willis Moves – Alexandria, VA, USA
- Newness Dance – London, ENGLAND
- Hosanna Sacred Arts – Nashville, TN USA
- Les Ballets Grandiva
- Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – New York City, NY, USA
WORLD DANCE / ETHNIC DANCE / HISTORICAL DANCE
- Afghani Dance
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- African Dance
- The Artistic Circle of Expression Nyata Nyata – Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
- Ballethnic Classical ballet with African Dance influences
- Les Ballets Creoles African/Carribean
- Les Fioti Fioti’s – Kinshasa, CONGO
- Ife-Ile – Miami, FL, USA: Afro-Cuban
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Maimouna Keita West African Dance Company – Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Newton Moraes Dance Afro-Brazilian
- Urban Bush Women Contemporary with African influences
- Utamaduni Cultural Association – Aarhus, DENMARK
- Anatolian (see “Turkish”)
- Armenian
- Carolyn Krueger and Gulistan Dance Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Argentine: Tango, etc.
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Australian Indigenous Dance
- Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre Aboriginal/Contemporary
- Bangarra Dance Theatre Aboriginal/Contemporary
- Azerbaijani
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Carolyn Krueger and Gulistan Dance Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Ballets Folklorico
- Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico – Dallas, TX, USA
- Ballet Folklórico de Mexico de Amalia Hernández
- Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Guadalajara
- Calpulli Mexican Dance Company – New York, NY, USA
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Balkan
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Black Ethnic
- Brazilian Samba, etc.
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Sambão Para o Povo – Mountain View, CA, USA
- Bulgarian
- Butoh
- Don McLeod Zen Butoh – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Ko Murabushi & Urara Kusanagi Japanese Butoh Dance – AUSTRIA
- Kokoro Dance – Vancouver, BC, CANADA
- Mundo Butoh Argentina – Tango Butoh – ARGENTINA
- Sankai Juku
- Tangentz Performance Group – Honolulu, HI, USA
- Canadian
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Cape Breton
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Celtic Dance
- Celtic Dance Theatre – Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Celtic Fusion
- Claddagh Dance Company – Ventura, CA, USA
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Liam Harney Irish Dance Company – San Diego, CA, USA
- The Riverdance Irish Dance Company
- To Dance On The Moon – Kerry, IRELAND
- Character Dance
- Georgian National Ballet – Tbilisi, GEORGIA
- Chilean
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Chinese
- Chinese Dance Workshop – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Chinese Folk Dance Company – New York City, NY, USA
- Lorita Leung Dance Association – (Folk, Classical) – Vancouver, BC, CANADA
- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Chinese American
- Peony Performing Arts (Chinese Dance & Kunqu Opera) – Pacifica, CA, USA
- Toronto Chinese Dance Company – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Colombian
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Clogging
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Croatian
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Cuban
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Dominican Republic
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Dutch
- Pieremachochel – Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
- Ecuador
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- El Salvador
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- English
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- European Historical Dance
- Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company – Claremont, CA, USA – 20th Century
- Consort de Danse Baroque – Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Dance Through Time
- The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers
- Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance Company – Philadelphia, PA, USA
- New York Baroque Dance Company – New York City, NY, USA
- Renaissance Dance
- Seattle Early Dance – Seattle, Washington, USA – Baroque dance
- Società di Danza – Bologna, ITALY – XV to XIX Century dances
- Finnish
- Katrilli – Helsinki, FINLAND
- Flamenco
- A Nuestro Aire – Covina, CA, USA
- Antinéa Flamenco – GERMANY
- ¡Arte Flamenco! – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Carmen de Torres y Compañia – Seville, SPAIN
- Compagnie Blanca Li – Modern Dance & Flamenco
- Danza Viva
- El Duende Flamenco – Sidney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
- Esencia Flamenca – Birmingham, UK
- Flamenco Dallas – Dallas, TX, USA
- Flamenco Dance Areti – Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
- Flamenco Express – London, UK
- Flamenco Puro
- Flamenco Vivo – Copenhagen, DENMARK
- Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana – New York, NY, USA
- Flamenco y Mas – Dublin City, IRELAND
- Flamenco Zyryab – ARGENTINA
- Flamencology Dance Studio – Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
- Gitana Blanca Flamenco Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Increpacion Danza – Barcelona, SPAIN
- Mariquilla Flamenco Dance Company – Grenada, SPAIN
- Miguel Bernal Flamenco & Spanish Dance Co. – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- The Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Theatre – Dorchester, MA, USA
- Ritmo Flamenco – Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
- Rosa Negra Flamenco Company – Los Angeles, LA, USA
- Studio Flamenco – Clarence Park, SA, AUSTRALIA
- Vida Peral – Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
- Viva Flamenco – London, UK
- French-Canadian
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Georgian
- Georgian National Ballet – Tbilisi, GEORGIA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Greek
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Theatre Dora Stratou – Living Museum of Greek Dance – Athens, GREECE
- Highland
- Historic Choreography Revivals
- Momenta – (Humphrey, St. Denis, Duncan, etc.) – Oak Park, IL, USA
- Honduras
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Hungarian
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Indian Classical
- Angahara Ensemble – Yorba Linda, CA, USA – classical: Bharata Natyam & Kuchipudi
- Bharata Natyum of Dr. Francis Barboza – Edison, NJ, USA
- Chitresh Das Dance Company – San Rafael, CA, USA
- Cultural Centre of India – Cincinnati, OH, USA – Bharata Natyam
- Kay Poursine Bharata Natyam (classical south Indian) [email protected]
- Natyarpana Dance Company – Madison, WI, USA
- Navarasa Dance Theater – Somerville, MA, USA
- Neena & Veena – (East Indian: bhangra, rajastan) – Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Nrityanjali Academy – INDIA
- Padma Menon Dance Theatre Classical/Contemporary
- Rema Shrikant/Ellora Centre for Performing Arts (Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam,Kuchipudi,Kathakali) – Vadodara, INDIA
- Shakthi Dance – New York City, NY, USA
- Iranian / Persian
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Irish see Celtic
- Kurdish
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Latino
- Aztlan Dance Company – Austin, TX, USA
- City Dance Corps – Toronto, ONT, CANADA
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance – Austin, TX, USA
- Mexican (see “Ballets Folklorico” above)
- Middle Eastern [There is also an extensive index of middle eastern dance links at the end of this site: Belly Dance Home Page]
- Adam Basma Music & Dance Company – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Afra Al-Kahira – GREAT BRITAIN
- Angelique & Friends Belly Dance – Mesa, AZ, USA
- As-Sayf – Middle Eastern/North African
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Aziza – Torino, ITALY
- Desert Moon Dancers – St. Louis, MO, USA
- Carolyn Krueger and Gulistan Dance Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Koresh Dance – Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Namah Ensemble (contemporary mystical Persian with live music) – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Neena & Veena – Santa Monica, CA, USA
- The Rising Phoenix Dancers – Delray Beach, FL, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Soraya’s Mid East Dance &Music Productions – Gladwyne, PA; Margate & Princeton, NJ, USA
- Suhaila Dance Company – Berkeley, CA, USA
- Multicultural/World
- Groove Merchant Drum & Dance Ensemble – Bordentown, NJ, USA
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- International Dance Theatre – Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
- Magic Touch Multicultural Dance Co. – Children’s company.
- Rythm In Motion Dance Company – World Dance
- Nicaragua
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Peru
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Polish
- Slask Song and Dance Ensemble – Koszêcin, POLAND
- Syrena Polish Folk Dance Ensemble – Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Polynesian
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Roma/”Gypsy”
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Samba (see Brazilian Samba)
- Scottish
- Forrester’s Cape Breton Scottish Dance Co. – Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, CANADA
- Silk Route
- Carolyn Krueger and Gulistan Dance Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- South African
- Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble – Crownsville, MD, USA
- Tadjik
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Tahitian (See “Hawaiian-Tahitian”)
- Turkish (Anatolian)
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Collage International Dance Ensemble – Boston, MA, USA
- Ukrainian
- Shumka – Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
- Virsky Spirit of Ukraine
- Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble – Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
- Yalenka – Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
- United States (Swing, Lindy Hop, Texas Line Dance, etc.)
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Uzbekistani
- Avaz International Dance Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Carolyn Krueger and Gulistan Dance Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Silk Road Dance – Washington, DC, USA
- Venezuela
- Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Circus Dance
- Seros – New York City, NY, USA