Research & Information

• Directory of Not-for-Profit Dance Ensembles
• Snapshot of the Field
• Member Surveys
• Services and Information Requests
• Research Resources
• Task Force on Dancer Health
• Staff Residency Program
• Resources on Harassment in the Workplace
• Technical & Standardization Documents
• Resources on Building Audiences for the Arts
• Resources on Music and Choreography
• Support for Female Choreographers in Ballet

Resources on Music and Choreography

The following resources are for finding and securing music for choreography, compiled as part of a special 2018 program, Music and The Choreographer, funded by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Dance/USA would like to give special thanks to Corey Field for his assistance with this program.

How and where choreographers find music is as wide and varied as the endless kinds of dance genres in creation. If you have a resource for finding music that you would like to see included here, please email Dance/USA.  

Here are some resources for finding music:
Webinar recordings 
Resources for Finding Music

WEBINAR RECORDINGS 

Webinar #1:  Finding Music for Choreography

Webinar #2:  Navigating Music Rights 101
 

Webinar #3: Stories from the Field

 

RESOURCES TO FIND MUSIC

INNOVA RECORDINGS

Innova Recordings home page: 600+ albums of contemporary music.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – PRESELECTED COLLECTION TAGGED FOR DANCE 
  A preselected Collection tagged as Music for Dance, either originally intended for movement, or likely candidates.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – NON-WESTERN ALBUMS 
  A segment of the catalog featuring non Western albums, including some traditional dance music. 

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLIST
  A Soundcloud playlist featuring one track from every album

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – SPOTIFY PLAYLIST FEATURING MUSIC FOR DANCE
  A Spotify Playlist featuring a curated set of possible music for dance.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
  A YouTube playlist of innova artists’ videos from the general catalog, some of which feature dance.  

AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM
American Composers Forum site; you are welcome to post Opportunities for composers to respond to and send you their work for consideration.

• AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM “CREATE”
  The American Composers Forum “Create” (formerly JFund) is one possible source of funding for commissions.

NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY
(Note:  If you are a professor or adjunct at a university, you may already have access to the Naxos Music Library)

• NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY HOME
  
• NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY - WORLD
  
• NAXOS LICENSING 
  Lists and pre-cleared works of music

NEW MUSIC USA

• COUNTERSTREAM RADIO (Note: Look to the upper left hand corner for the link to Counterstream Radio)
• NEW MUSIC BOX
  
• NEW MUSIC USA PROJECT GRANTS
  

CENTER FOR BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH

FOUNDATION FOR IBERIAN MUSIC 

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC NETWORKS 

• THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION CENTRES (IAMIC) 
  
• IAMIC main website  
• IAMIC members' websites  
• THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (ISCM)
  
• ISCM main website  
• ISCM list of current members  

In additional some international music information centres have easy-to-use web resources, including:

• CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE (CMC)
  
• CMC main website 
• CMC composer showcase  
• ISCM KOREA
  
• ISCM Korea main website  
• Many of the links to individual composers include embedded audio/video.
• Composers of ISCM Korea  
• MUSIC INFORMATION AND PUBLISHING CENTRE, LITHUANIA (MICL)
  
• MICL main website  
• Anthology of Lithuanian Art Music in the 21st Century  
• Frank J. Oteri Presents the Anthology of LIthuanian Art Music in the 21st Century  
• AGUAFORTE (BRAZIL)
  
• Agua Forte main website  
• CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE OF IRELAND
  
• CMC Ireland main website  
• CMC Ireland features  
• WorldCat
• SoundFORMovement

RADIO, BLOGS, AND MORE

• UNCLASSIFIED – SPOTIFY LISTENING LISTS
• APPLE MUSIC RADIO 
• SPOTIFY RADIO
• VIOLIN CHANNEL
• THE REST IS NOISE – ALEX ROSS
• I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
• CANTALOUPE RECORDING LABEL
• SONO LUMNIUS RECORDING LABEL
• ARKIVMUSIC’S NEWSLETTERS (CLASSICAL AND JAZZ)
• COMPOSER DIVERSITY DATABASE
• HB DIRECT RETAILER