New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986 First edition.
Table of Contents:
“…The Nutcracker ; Massine's Three-Cornered Hat -- Dolin's Romantic Age -- Tudor's Dark Elegies ; Swan Lake -- Argentinita ; Charles Weidman ; Aleko ; Karen Conrad -- Loring's Billy the Kid -- Tudor's Romeo and Juliet revisited -- Danilova : pleasure in the grand style -- Ballet at Lewisohn : Les Sylphides and Petrouchka -- Swan Lake and Aleko at the Stadium -- Ballet Theatre and the Monte Carlo -- Massine's Capriccio Espagnol ; De Mille's Three Virgins ; Giselle -- Tudor's Gala Performance -- On commissioning new ballet scores -- Tudor and pantomime -- On meaning in dance -- Ballet technique -- The dance in film -- Balanchine and de Mille on Broadway -- Concert dancers in nightclubs -- Ice-Capades for war bonds -- Katherine Dunham -- About toe dancing -- How to judge a dancer -- Massine's Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Dolin's Pas de Quatre -- Lichine's Fair st Sorochinsk -- A correction -- Back to the Fair -- Regrets about Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Lilac Garden ; Lichine's Helen of Troy -- Argentinita's Pictures of Goya ; Tudor's Judgment of Paris -- Tudor's Dim Lustre -- Dim Lustre and Romeo and Juliet -- A Ballet Theatre matinee -- The de Mille Touch -- Tchaikovsky at Ballet Theatre -- Billy the Kid and its dance faults -- Concerto Barocco at Needle Trades High School -- Alonso's Giselle -- Some ballet books -- Rosella Hightower ; Jerome Robbins -- Some faults of Ballet Theatre -- Argentinita at Carnegie Hall -- American Concert Ballet : three new choreographers -- Dudley, Maslow, Bates -- A recital of dance styles -- Anna Sokolow : Carmen Jones ; Baronova -- Asadata Dafora -- Graham's Deaths and Entrances and Salem Shore -- Paul Draper -- The Metropolitan Opera Ballet -- Sybil Shearer ; Carmen Amaya -- Deaths and Entrances revisited -- Henie's Ice Revue -- Skating as ballet -- Pearl Primus and Valerie Bettis -- Hanya Holm's Orestes -- Why not a New York ballet? …”