The Dance Online web site is as carefully choreographed as dance for stage. Web designer and publisher Andrea Sferes and her talented staff produce a web site as fine as any to be found anywhere. If you design for the Web, see this site. If you are simply looking for an enjoyable encounter, set your controls for the heart of the sun and see this site. One embraces movement and live performance, the other immobility and virtual communication.
Some choreographers worry that the Web threatens to keep theaters half full.
Dancer Andrea Sferes counters this omen with Dance Online. Best defined as a vertical dance magazine, Dance Online offers previews, reviews, listings, photo-essays, and video clips. Unlike a periodical, it is updated every four days. This week it has an interview with David Dorfman and photo images by Dona Ann McAdams. Like Sferes's, the best dance sites entice browsers to attend concerts.