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Tables of Contents for Choreography Observed
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction and Acknowledgments
ix
ONE Thinking about Choreography
1
30
Confessions of a Choreography-Watcher
4
9
Will Choreography Ever Be Respected as an Art Form?
13
3
Idealists, Materialists, and the Thirty-Two Fouettes
16
11
Why Doesn't the Prince Stay to Watch Aurora Dance?
27
7
TWO Out of the Past
31
44
The World of Eighteenth-Century Dance Comes Back to Life
34
4
Staging the Classics Is Not So Simple as It Seems
38
4
The Great World and the Small: Reflections on the Bournonville Festival
42
10
Fokine-The Undervalued Revolutionary
52
3
Legends in the Flesh
55
7
Joffrey Brings Back Its Faune
62
1
Massine's Parade
63
2
Nijinska's Les Noces
65
1
Annabelle Gamson as Isadora
66
3
When Ballroom Dances Take to the Stage
69
6
THREE Some Contemporary Masters
75
64
The Glorious Unpredictability of George Balanchine
78
8
By Any Name, It's Still an Imperial Ballet
86
3
Balanchine's Schumann
89
2
The View from the House Opposite: Some Aspects of Tudor
91
11
Party Manners and Frederick Ashton
102
7
A Month in the Country
109
2
Robbins's New Ballet May Mean Many Things
111
4
Some Personal Grumbles about Martha Graham
115
6
A Heady Season
121
7
Dances about Everything and Dances about Some Things
128
6
Moments Called Now
134
5
FOUR Ballet Makers
139
18
Grigorovich and the Bolshoi
142
4
Talking to Myself about Eliot Feld
146
5
Neumeier in Hamburg
151
4
Kylian and Netherlands Dance Theatre
155
2
FIVE The Ever-Modern
157
50
Paul Taylor: Surface and Substance
160
7
Taylor's Rites
167
2
Ailey's Flowers
169
2
Judson Revivals: A Festival Benefit
171
4
Yvonne Rainer: The Puritan as Hedonist
175
7
Steve Paxton's Improvisations
182
2
The Changing Faces of Twyla Tharp
184
3
Trisha Brown's Minimalism
187
3
New Dances That Made Audiences Think
190
4
Patterns and Spinning Are Only Part of It
194
3
How Not to Get Trapped in a Choreographic Rut
197
4
Some of Her Choreographic Brainchildren Are Real Brats
201
3
Dana Reitz Performs
204
3
SIX Images in Action
207
32
Parades and Changes
210
3
Initiations and Transformations
213
1
Monk's Inimitable Images
214
4
Lazarus, a Multimedia Event
218
1
Phoebe Neville's Enigmas
219
4
Three Views of Orpheus
223
2
Plotess Dance-Drama That Deals in Emotions
225
3
Pina Bausch's Hippo
228
2
Kei Takei
230
2
Eiko and Koma Control Time
232
2
How Avant-Garde Works Resemble Romantic Classics
234
5
SEVEN Problems and Prospects
239
40
Classics Comics
242
15
The Rise of the Male Ensemble
257
5
Is Ballet Diluting Modern Dance?
262
3
Balanchine's Choreographic Influence: Pluses and Minuses
265
4
New Is Not Always Better
269
4
An Essay on Dance Criticism
273
6
Index
279