Time and the Dancing Image
Annotated list of the sections:
- Flesh and Spirit: The Uneasy Balance
In Pursuit of the Sylph
Heroism in the Harem
[19th-century ballet Romanticism] - The Search for Motion [Isadora Duncan]
- Sphinxes, Slaves, and Goddesses
The Veils of Salome
The Veil of Isis
[Two views of Orientalism in fin-de siècle ballet and modern dance] - Modern Movers
The Created Self
Group Spirits
[Modern dancers of the 1920s and 1930s in Germany and America] - The Heroines Within [Martha Graham]
By Their Steps You Shall Know Them
In the Royal Image [late 19th-century ballet in Russia]
Forward to Petipa [George Balanchine’s vision] - Illusion of Choice—Acceptance of Chance [Merce Cunningham and John Cage]
- Everyday Bodies [radical revisions of the 1960s in New York]
- The Allure of Metamorphosis [20th-century artists and companies and the disguising of the body]