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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The History of Ballet | |
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| Let the History Begin ... | |
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| Le Ballet: A Man's World | |
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| Ballerinas and the Danse d'Ecole | |
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| Gentle Women and Gentle Men of the Ballet | |
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| The Pre-Romantic and Romantic Eras | |
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| French Art in Danish and Russian Quarters | |
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| Grand Pa Petipa and His Empire | |
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| Russia Surpasses France | |
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| Diaghilev Does Paris | |
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| Ballet's Roving Ambassadress | |
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| Nijinska and Neoclassicism | |
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| George Balanchine in Europe | |
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| Ballet Takes Root in Britain | |
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| Fred and Margot | |
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| Paris, Opera, and Ballet | |
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| Soviet Russia, Nureyev, England, and the World | |
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| Rudi in England and Around the World | |
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| America, Ballet, and Balanchine | |
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| America, New York City, and Ballet | |
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| Beyond the Paris Opera and Beyond Paris | |
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| Starry Nights | |
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| A Top Three and More | |
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| At War and Peace with Modern Dance | |
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| Back in the USSR | |
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| Far from Denmark | |
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| Leading Male Dancers Lead | |
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| Harlem, Cuba, China, Japan, South America | |
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| Post-Script: Dancers, Dancers, Dancers | |
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| The Dancers | |
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| Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ballet | |
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| Men and Women at Work | |
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| Boys to Men | |
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| Corpsmen and Middlemen | |
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| Primo Ballerinos | |
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| Corps de Ballet Feminin | |
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| Queen Bees | |
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| Looking At a Ballet | |
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| Looking at Ballets | |
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| Ballets Without Stories | |
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| Getting Ballet on the Stage | |
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| Revivals and Resurrections | |
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| Salut du Roi | |
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| The Famous Ballets | |
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| At the Ballet | |
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| Romantic Classical Ballet: Swan Lake | |
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| Popular Beyond Ballet: The Nutcracker | |
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| Classical Classical Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty | |
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| Mature Romantic Ballet: Giselle | |
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| Ballet Embodying the Ideal: La Sylphide | |
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| Ballet of Mood: Les Sylphides | |
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| Romantic Turning Classical: La Bayadere | |
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| Renewing Classicism: Apollo | |
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| Neo-Romanticism, Neo-Primitivism, and Neoclassicism: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Triple Bill | |
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| Sunny and Funny and Fine: La Fille Mal Gardee | |
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| Romantic: Small "r," Big Emotions: Romeo and Juliet | |
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| Pushing and Shoving Ballet a Bit: Push Comes to Shove | |
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| Glossary of Ballet Terms and Phrases | |
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| Videography | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |