About Australia Dancing

The Australia Dancing portal, hosted by the National Library of Australia, provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia.

The primary zone, the directory of resources, describes dance research materials held by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and other selected institutions. Some of this material is directly accessible in digital formats, such as digitised pictures. Some information is available as electronic finding aids, such as online descriptions of the contents of manuscript and ephemera collections. Progressively more material is being made available in these ways. ScreenSound Australia holdings are described according to their first preservation formats only, digital betacam videotape, 35 mm film, and so on. Other formats are usually available and users are encouraged to consult the National Film and Sound Archive online catalogue for further information.

The directory service is supplemented by other pages enabling discovery, location and access to information about dance in Australia through links to other relevant sites, and through current industry information provided by Ausdance and available on the Ausdance website.

Resource material listed in the directory is generally available for on-site research purposes, although some material may be subject to certain restrictions requested by donors. Public or commercial use of the material may be subject to further or different restrictions. Enquiries should be directed to the holding institution.

Australia Dancing is an initiative of the National Library of Australia in partnership with key collecting institutions and the peak industry and advocacy body for dance in Australia - Ausdance. In its initial stages it was generously funded by the Australia Council. Its aim is to make Australian dance materials accessible to local, national and international communities, and to build the Australian Dance Collection.

Content published on this web site is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this content for your personal or non-commercial use but only in an unaltered form and with the copyright acknowledged. Agencies wishing to make NLA content accessible through their web site are encouraged to link to the required content on this site. Australia Dancing is continually being updated and subject entries refined. For more information see the Copyright and Permissions section in Help.

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