International Sites

Dance Tutors. (2007). African Dance. Retrieved Mar. 16, 2008, from http://www.dancetutors.co.uk/african-dance.html

This is a United Kingdom resource created by an organization called Dance Tutors. The mission of this organization is to serve as a reference point for people trying to find a genre of dance they might like to learn. This page highlights the practice of African dance including its technique, importance of emotion and body movements and its ritual and cultural value. It also discusses the common influence African dance has had on many dance forms and the genres status in the dance world today. This source is useful to inform a reporter of the originating style that inspired American social dance. Also, through its analysis a reporter could determine what aspects of African dance are clearly still prominent in American social dance today. This site also includes links to other various genres of dance with the same classifications of information for each.

Salsa and Merengue Society . (1999). Salsa: The Dance. Retrieved Mar. 16, 2008, from http://www.salsa-merengue.co.uk/revealit/dancesal.html

This is a reference page created by the Salsa and Merengue Society in efforts to inform on Latin music, dance and culture. This site provides information on salsa technique, relation to beat, history and its change in “flavor” as it has spread to other cultures. It also supplies the same technical and historical information for another prominent style of Latin dance, Merengue. For a journalist interested in social dance, this site provides detailed description of a performance dance genre that has had much influence on a variety of culture’s social dance style and especially so on the American practice. It also offers a discussion of how dance grows with the change of music, links to learning Latin dance online and a glossary of dance terminology.