MORE DANCE COMPANIES

• JAZZ / TAP / BREAKDANCE
• LITURGICAL
• HUMOROUS
• EXPERIMENTAL / CROSS-MEDIA / BORDER CROSSERS / VERTICAL, ETC.
• WORLD / ETHNIC / HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE COMPANIES
• CIRCUS DANCE

JAZZ / TAP / BREAKDANCE

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

• 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

LITURGICAL DANCE

• Hosanna Sacred Arts – Nashville, TN USA

HUMOROUS

• 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

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

• Arthur Hall and Black Dance in America

Brazilian Samba, etc.

• Grupo America Dance Company – Vancouver, B.C., Canada
• Sambão Para o Povo – Mountain View, CA, USA

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

• Minnesota Scottish Celtic Dance Association

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)
• 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

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

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

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

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

Uzbekistan

• 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