ENCYCLOPEDIAS FOR DANCE AND BALLET IN ENGLISH....... TAMILS LOST OLD TEXTS............

Dance

Chujoy, Anatole; Manchester, Phyllis Winifred (1967). The Dance Encyclopedia. Touchstone. 992 pages. ISBN 978-0671240271

• Cohen, Selma Jean, ed. (1998, new edition 2004), The International Encyclopedia of Dance, Oxford University Press, 2,000 articles, 6 vols, 4,048 pages. ISBN 978-0195173697. Subscription-based access to the online version (2012), ISBN 9780195187632.

Ballet

• Balanchine, George and Francis Mason. 101 Stories of the Great Ballets. Doubleday, 1989. Bremser, Martha. International Dictionary of Ballet. St. James Press, 1993Clarke, Mary and Clement Crisp. Ballet Goer's Guide. Knopf, 1981.
• Koegler, Horst. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.