Table of Contents

PART I: THE BALLETS RUSSES AND BEYOND
Coming Home: Diaghilev in Perm
The Diaries of Marius Petipa
Design and the Idea of the Modern in Early Twentieth-Century Ballet
Diaghilev’s Musical Legacy
At Home and Abroad: Paris/Petersburg 1913
Dance, Film, and the Ballets Russes
Forgotten Interlude: Eurhythmic Dancers at the Paris Opera
Rivals for the New: The Ballets Suedois and the Ballets Russes
Politics in Paradise: Andre Levinson’s Classicism

PART II: RECONFIGURING THE SEXES
The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet
Soloists Abroad: The Pre-War Careers of Natalia Trouhanova and Ida Rubinstein
Lydia Lopokova and Les Soirees de Paris
Reconfiguring the Sexes
Choreography by Nijinska
Mark Morris and the Feminine Mystique
The Late Snow Prince
Where are Ballet’s Women Choreographers?

PART III: DANCE IN NEW YORK
Dance in the City: Toward an American Dance
George Antheil and the Dance
Dali, Ana Maria, and The Three-Cornered Hat
Radical Moments: Martha Graham Centennial Celebration
Writing on the Left: The Remarkable Career of Edna Ocko
Dollars for Dance: Lincoln Kirstein, City Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation
Parallel Lives: Alvin Ailey and Robert Joffrey
Revelations
Dance Theater of Harlem at Thirty
American Ballet Theatre: 1989
American Ballet Theatre: 2001
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet

PART IV: STAGING THE PAST
Price-Tagging Diaghilev
Tracking Down Le Train Bleu
Massine
Heterodoxical Pasts
Time Traveling with the Kirov
Myth or Memory? Solomon Volkov's Petersburg
Index