Online Resources Miscellaneous Genres Worldwide Capoeira Links African Music and Dance This is the Web site of C. K. Ladzekpo, director of the African music program at the University of California at Berkeley. It describes his foundation course in African dance-drumming and gives information on African drum and dance workshops as well as on performances of his African Music and Dance Ensemble. Africa South of the Sahara: Music This minisite is a component of an extensive site prepared by Karen Fung for the African Studies Association, USA. It provides an impressive and lengthy array of links to sites related to music, song, and dance in sub-Saharan Africa. Bharathanatyam.com This handsome Web site presents the artistic history, technique, and repertory of the oldest dance form of India, Bharatanatyam. It is sponsored by Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, a school founded by Guru Sri A.T. Govindraj Pillai in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1945. The institute has trained successive generations of gurus and has formed companies of dancers and musicians for performances in India, East Asia, Australia, North and South America, and Europe. Butoh Net The most useful, albeit not the most graphically attractive, site on butoh on the World Wide Web. It provides essays and definitions of butoh, a bibliography, a directory of teachers and performing artists, and a calendar of upcoming events. | |
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