CONTENTS
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Part 1: From the Beginnings to World War I
Indelible Ephemeral
Setting the Stage
O Pioneers!
Isadora Duncan, Hellenism, and Beauty
Ruth St. Denis and the Exotic
Dancing into the Future
Part 2: From World War I to the Great Depression
New Times, New Arts
Form, Feeling, Pattern, Passion
Family Trees and Hardy Growths
Denishawn
American Ferment
Rebels
Part 3: From Depression to World War II
Struggles, Dispersals, Amalgamations
Catastrophe
Modern Dance: An American Art
Crosscurrents
American Moderns
Choreographic Consciences
Part 4: From World War II to the 1960's
American Victories
Explorers and Dissenters
Iconoclasts
Fertile Ground, Barren Soil
Part 5: Since the 1960's
Stability and Change
Contemporary British Dance
A League of Dancing Nations
Conclusion: The Undefinable Redifining Art
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index