| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| |
| World Overview: The Dance of Life | |
| |
| |
| Prologue: A Historical Sense of Direction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Tribal Rites | |
| |
| |
| The Life of Stone Age Man | |
| |
| |
| |
| Dance in Tribal Societies | |
| |
| |
| Forms of Ritual Dance | |
| |
| |
| Tribal Culture and the Modern World | |
| |
| |
| |
| Asian Ceremonies | |
| |
| |
| Oriental Dance, Past and Present | |
| |
| |
| |
| Early Mediterranean Civilizations | |
| |
| |
| Our Dancing Ancestors | |
| |
| |
| |
| Folk Dance Development in Medieval Europe and Today | |
| |
| |
| The Church versus Secular Dance | |
| |
| |
| |
| European Ballet Tours | |
| |
| |
| |
| Noble Beginnings | |
| |
| |
| Aristocratic Entertainment 1300 to 1600 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Court Spectacles | |
| |
| |
| France, England, Italy, from the 1530s to 1640s | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Sun King Dances | |
| |
| |
| French Royal Ballet from 1650 to 1700s | |
| |
| |
| |
| Entrechats and Revolutions | |
| |
| |
| Professional Ballet 1714 to 1789 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Historical Paradoxes | |
| |
| |
| Art and Society in France from 1789 to 1820 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Romantic Ballet | |
| |
| |
| The Taglioni Influence | |
| |
| |
| |
| Exotic Voyages | |
| |
| |
| The Impact of Fanny Elssler | |
| |
| |
| |
| Giselle | |
| |
| |
| Timeless Romantic Ballet | |
| |
| |
| |
| Travelogue | |
| |
| |
| From Bournonville in Denmark to Coppelia in France | |
| |
| |
| |
| Russian Imperial Heights | |
| |
| |
| The Age of Petipa | |
| |
| |
| |
| Experiments in Entertainment | |
| |
| |
| Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes | |
| |
| |
| |
| International Regrouping | |
| |
| |
| European Ballet from 1929 to 1945 | |
| |
| |
| |
| British Taste and Manners | |
| |
| |
| Ballet in England from 1910 to the Present | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reprise | |
| |
| |
| European Ballet After Four Hundred Years | |
| |
| |
| |
| Dance in America | |
| |
| |
| |
| In The Beginning | |
| |
| |
| American Dance up to the 1900s | |
| |
| |
| |
| Modern Dance Creations | |
| |
| |
| Isadora Duncan and Forerunners | |
| |
| |
| |
| Denishawn | |
| |
| |
| From Sacred Dance to Jacob's Pillow | |
| |
| |
| |
| German Detour | |
| |
| |
| European Modern Dance | |
| |
| |
| |
| Towering Genius of Psychodrama | |
| |
| |
| Martha Graham | |
| |
| |
| |
| Humanists | |
| |
| |
| Humphrey Weidman | |
| |
| |
| |
| Impressive Figures | |
| |
| |
| Tamiris, Horton and Lewitzky | |
| |
| |
| |
| Mid-Century Modern Dance | |
| |
| |
| Anna Sokolow and Jose Limon | |
| |
| |
| |
| Afro-American Dancers | |
| |
| |
| Jazz Beat | |
| |
| |
| |
| Revival of American Ballet | |
| |
| |
| New York City Ballet, from the 1930s to the Present | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Many Styles of American Ballet | |
| |
| |
| American Ballet from the 1930s to the Present | |
| |
| |
| |
| Bodies in Motion | |
| |
| |
| Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais | |
| |
| |
| |
| Movement Abstractions and Beyond | |
| |
| |
| Major Figures of the Avant-Garde | |
| |
| |
| |
| Epilogue: The Judgment of History | |
| |
| |
| Bibliography | |
| |
| |
| Index | |