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Reading dance: a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, interviews, and some uncategorizable extras
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
c2008
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Frederick Ashton
Letter to Alary Clarke / George Balanchine
Notes on Choreography / Frederick Ashton
Frederick Ashton and His Ballets / Clive Barnes
Enigma Variations / Mindy Aloff
Ashton Now / David Vaughan
Ashton Ballets
Enigma Variations / Nancy Goldner
La Fille Mal Gardee / Nancy Goldner
Ashton's Romeo: A Wise Virgin / Joan Acocella
Symphonic Variations / Julie Kavanagh
Fred Astaire
Beginnings / Fred Astaire
Ginger's Dress / Fred Astaire
Dress / Ginger Rogers
Notes on La Belle, La Perfectly Swell, Romance / Arlene Croce
Nice Work, Darling, Nice Work / Alastair Macaulay
Letter to Adele / Fred Astaire
George Balanchine
Marginal Notes on the Dance / George Balanchine
Conversations with Balanchine / W. McNeil Lowry
Some Thoughts About Classicism and George Balanchine / Edwin Denby
Personal Encounters / B. H. Haggin
Meeting Balanchine / Lincoln Kirstein
My Friend George Balanchine / Nathan Milstein
Masculine Man / Vera Zorina
Balanchine Ballets
Three Sides of Agon / Edwin Denby
Four Decades of Agon: The Pas de Deux / Leigh Witchel
Ballet Imperial / Holly Brubach
Chaconne / Nancy Goldner
Liebeslieder Walzer / Tobi Tobias
Midsummer Night's Dream / Anita Finkel
Mozartiana / Arlene Croce
Robert Schumann's "Davidsbundlertanze" / Claudia Roth Pierpont
La Valse / Nancy Reynolds
Who Cares? / Arlene Croce
Balanchine Lost Ballets
Cotillon / A. V. Coton
Figure in the Carpet / Rosanne Klass
Opus 34 / Edwin Denby
Balanchine Dancers
Robert Greskovic / Darci Kistler
Robert Greskovic / Patricia McBride
Robert Greskovic / Peter Martins
Claudia Roth Pierpont / Kyra Nichols
B. H. Haggin / Violette Verdy
Arlene Croce / Edward Villella
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soloist / Joan Acocella
Defection / John Fraser
Le Mystere Baryshnikov / Arlene Croce
Baryshnikov Dancing Judson / Jill Johnston
Giselle / Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Myself / August Bournonville
La Sylphide / Mikhail Baryshnikov
Folk Tale / Tobi Tobias
Guards of Amager / Nancy Goldner
Choreographic Creed / August Bournonville
Commentary
La Bayadere / Peter Anastos
Costumes by Karinska / Toni Bentley
Edwin Denby / Arlene Croce
Gelsey Kirkland: The Judy Garland of Ballet / Harris Green
Ulanova - A Tribute / Arnold L. Haskell
Ballet in a Bad Time / Lincoln Kirstein
Audience / P. W. Manchester
Dancer and the Dance / Susan Sontag
At the Ballet / Konstantin Stanislavsky
Three Essays on Dancing / James Waring
Critical Voices
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato / Joan Acocella
Petrouchka / Cyril Beaumont
Lilac Garden / Christopher Caines
Genie's Cool Charm / H. T. Parker
Throw Tolstoy from the Train: Boris Eifman / Nancy Dalva
Against Meaning in Ballet / Edwin Denby
Superficial Thoughts on Foreign Classicism / Edwin Denby
Rockettes and Rhythm / Edwin Denby
Alvin Ailey / Nancy Goldner
Maurice Bejart / Nancy Goldner
Bolshoi / Nancy Goldner
Time Tunnel: Jose Limon / Jill Johnston
Charlotte Moorman: Over His Dead Body / Jill Johnston
Steve Paxton: Tornado in a Teacup / Jill Johnston
Significance of the Dance / Andre Levinson
Spirit of the Classic Dance / Andre Levinson
Argentina / Andre Levinson
Sex, Violence, and Kenneth MacMillan / Alastair Macaulay
Trisha Brown: Dancing Through the Language Barrier / Marcia B. Siegel
Mauve Punk: Karole Armitage / Marcia B. Siegel
Comforts of Hell: Bill Irwin / Marcia B. Siegel
Exhibit A and Possibly B: Meredith Monk / Marcia B. Siegel
Ballet on Ice / Walter Terry
Nutcracker: Magic / Walter Terry
Clytemnestra / Walter Terry
Mathilde Kschessinska / Akim Volynsky
Olga Preobrajenska / Akim Volynsky
Lida Ivanovo / Akim Volynsky
Olga Spessivtseva / Akim Volynsky
Merce Cunningham
Merce / Nancy Dalva
Dancer and the Dance / Merce Cunningham and Jacqueline Lesschaeve
At the Theater de Lys / Carolyn Brown
Pale Horse, Pale Rider / Terry Teachout
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev / Arnold L. Haskell
Coming Home / Lynn Garafola
Diaghilev and Music / Nicolas Nabokov
Auditioning for Diaghilev / Vernon Duke
Isadora Duncan
In Russia / Isadora Duncan
How I Met Isadora / Mary Desti
Isadora's Death / Mary Desti
Isadora / Janet Flanner
Isadora Duncan: In Memoriam / Andre Levinson
Free Spirit / Robert Gottlieb
Suzanne Farrell
Audition / Suzanne Farrell
Conversation with Suzanne Farrell / David Daniel
Conversation with Diana Adams / David Daniel
Suzanne Farrell / Robert Greskovic
First Person
First Designs / Cecil Beaton
Dancing with Vernon / Irene Castle
Escape from Holland / Ninette de Valois
Les Sylphides / Michel Fokine
Dancing for Twyla / Alma Guillermoprieto
Early Days / Tamara Karsavina
Debut / Allegra Kent
La Sonnamhula / Allegra Kent
Tsarevitch / Mathilde Kschessinska
Diaghilev / Serge Lifar
Goebbels / Serge Lifar
East Fifty-ninth Street: The Birthplace / Jose Limon
Swan Lake / Natalia Makarova
Crisis / Alicia Markova
End of Denishawn / Barton Mumaw
Opening Night / Bronislava Nijinska
La Chatte / Alice Nikitina
Dancer's Childhood / Marius Petipa
Thaw / Maya Plisetskaya
Renoirs Go to the Ballet / Jean Renoir
Egypta / Ruth St. Denis
Dancing with Nijinska / Margaret Severn
Margot Fonteyn
Snowflake to Superstar / Dale Harris
Rudolf / Margot Fonteyn
Art of Pleasing / Robert Gottlieb
Margot Fonteyn / David Daniel
Martha Graham
Martha Graham / Kenneth Tynan
Chat with Martha Graham / Don McDonagh
Martha / Dorothy Bird
Conversation with May O'Donnell / Tobi Tobias
Primitive Mysteries / Nancy Goldner
Dance Goddess with Feet of Clay / Dale Harris
Graham Crackers / Renee E. D'Aoust
Historical
Ballet Club / Mary Clarke
Letter to Heine / Theophile Gautier
Maria Theresa: Isadora's Last Dancing Daughter / Deborah Jowitt
Salome / Elizabeth Kendall
Interviews
Barbara Newman / Tanaquil LeClercq
Robert Gottlieb / Allegra Kent
Joan Acocella / Mark Morris on Mozart Dances
Barbara Newman / Antoinette Sibley
Francis Mason / Martha Swope
Francis Mason / Tamara Toumanova
Leonide Massine
Meeting Diaghilev / Leonide Massine
Massine / Alexandra Danilova
Interviewing Massine / John Drummond
Movies
Cleopatra / Agnes de Mille
Limelight / Melissa Hayden
Turning Point / Pauline Kael
Disney's Dances / Alastair Macaulay
Interview with John Kobal / Eleanor Powell
Red Shoes / Michael Powell
Singin' in the Rain / Debbie Reynolds
Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky / Lincoln Kirstein
Le Sacre du Printemps / Jacques Riviere
Notes on Nijinsky Photographs / Edwin Denby
Working on Sacre / Marie Rambert
Nijinsky and Til Eulenspiegel / Robert Edmond Jones
Strangeness of Til / H. T. Parker
Nijinsky's Last Days in the Theatre / Andre Oliveroff
Specter of Nijinsky / Nicolas Nabokov
God Twice Buried / Richard Buckle
Rudolf Nureyev
Some of My Memories / Liuba Myasnikova
Celestial Accident / Julie Kavanagh
Nureyev Remembered / Alastair Macaulay
Obituaries
Arlene Croce / George Balanchine
Mindy Aloff / Honi Coles
Janet Flanner / La Goulue
Christopher Caines / Hanya Holm
Walter Terry / Ruth St. Denis
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova / Keith Money
Anna Pavlova / Akim Volynsky
Genius of Pavlova / Walford Hyden
Pavlova / Sol Hurok
Pavlova at the Met / Carl Van Vechten
Russian Ballet in Tokyo / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Present at The Creation
Apollo / Alexandra Danilova
Ballets 1933 / Diana Gould Menuhin
Clytemnestra / Paul Taylor
Firebird / Maria Tallchief
Midsummer Night's Dream / Edward Villella
Moor's Pavane / Pauline Koner
Parade / Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale
Petrouchka / Alexandre Benois
Pillar of Fire / Sono Osato
Primitive Mysteries / Dorothy Bird
Le Sacre du Printemps / Lydia Sokolova
Serenade / Ruthanna Boris
Profiles
Colonel de Basil / Sol Hurok
Marquis de Cuevas / Agnes de Mills
Ninette de Valois / Richard Buckle
Senta Driver: Stomping Out a Niche for Herself / Deborah Jowitt
Bob Fosse: Dancing and the Dark / Joan Acocella
Lincoln Kirstein / Richard Buckle
Nicolas Legat / Alan Carter
Carmelita Maracci / Agnes de Mille
Alicia Markova / Agnes de Mille
Olga Spessivtseva / Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman / Sol Hurok
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins / Mindy Aloff
Bringing Back Robbins's Fancy / Tobi Tobias
Dances at a Gathering / Jerome Robbins and Edwin Denby
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty / Frederick Ashton
Tchaikovsky and the Ballet / Constant Lambert
Sleeping Beauty / Arlene Croce
Big Sleep / Alastair Macaulay
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor / Clement Crisp
Aureole / Paul Taylor
Sunset / Nancy Dalva
Moving Pictures / Holly Brubach
Why I Make Dances / Paul Taylor
Teachers
Class with Balanchine / Merrill Ashley
On Teaching / Alexandra Danilova
My Teachers / Margot Fonteyn
Nijinska / Allegra Kent
Fokine / Pauline Koner
Balanchine's Teaching / Suki Schorer
Interview with Barbara Newman / Richard Thomas
Quality of the Moment: Stanley Williams / Tobi Tobias
Twyla Tharp
Twyla / Nancy Dalva
Push Comes to Shove / Twyla Tharp
Push Comes to Shove / Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nine Sinatra Songs / Nancy Goldner
Tharp Against the Whirlwind / Deborah Jowitt
Extras
On the Ballet / George Jean Nathan
Note on the Ballet / Max Beerbohm
Pavlova Goes Shopping / Grace Curnock
Alec: or the Future of Choreography / Lincoln Kirstein
Early Interview / Paul Taylor
Ballet Cook Book / Tanaquil LeClercq.
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