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