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List of contents
INTRODUCTION
REHEARSAL
THE DENISHAWN SuccESSION
BEGINNINGS
Air for the G String (Humphrey)
Water Study (Humphrey)
Lzfe of the Bee (Humphrey)
Lamentation (Graham)
Negro Spirituals (Tamiris)
RITUAL
Primitive Mysteries (Graham)
The Shakers (Humphrey)
NEOCLASSICISM I
Serenade (Balanchine)
New Dance (Humphrey)
Passacaglia (Humphrey)
Concerto Barocco (Balanchine)
AMERICANA BALLET
Frankie and Johnny (Page-Stone)
Filling Station (Christensen)
Billy the Kid (Loring)
Rodeo (de Mille)
Fancy Free (Robbins)
CRYSTALLIZATION I
Frontier to Appalachian Spring (Graham)
Pillar of Fire (Tudor)
Day on Earth (Humphrey)
The Moor's Pavane (Limon)
THE EPIC GRAHAM
Letter to the World
Deaths and Entrances
Herodiade
Dark Meadow
Errand into the Maze
Night Journey
BALANCHINE' S AMERICA
Four Temperaments
Ivesiana
Agon
Episodes
ADOLESCENTS
Interplay (Robbins)
N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (Robbins)
Moves (Robbins)
Deuce Coupe (Tharp)
CRYSTALLIZATION
Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)
Rooms (Sokolow)
Revelations (Ailey)
Summerspace and Winterbranch (Cunningham)
Private Domain (Taylor)
MEN DANCING
NEOCLASSICISM II
Septet (Cunningham)
Aureole (Taylor)
Early Feld
As Time Goes By and Push Comes to Shove (Tharp)
CHRONOLOGY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
Marcia B. Siegel (1959-1995) was a dance critic, teacher, and advocate for professional dance criticism.
Summary
Going beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment of American dance, the author tracks down - often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape - as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them ...in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination.
