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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction xi ∞. legends The Rose and the Scimitar 1 Le Sacre Reconstructed 4 Afternoon of a Legend 6 Nijinsky’s Crime against Grace 15 Nijinsky in Translation 17 When Ballet Leaped into Today 24 Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Nijinska 27 Weddings 30 Because I Must 32 Balletomaniacs 37 Robert Joffrey, 1930–1988 39 The Hum of the Turbine, the Roar of the Crowd 41 ≤. movable classics Farm Frolic 46 Bolshoi Wrap-up 47 Cabrioles at Dawn 50 Why We Need the Classics 53 Shazam! 57 Danes at the Met 59 200 Years of Geniality 61 Kitri’s Caboodle 69 Kirov on Tour 72 Swamped 75 Swans under Glass 76 Kingdom of the Sweet 78 Everybody’s Treat 89 Royal Ballet’s Bayadère 91 Classic in Retrograde 93 Raymonda Redux 95 Beautification 97 Two Tales Retold 100 ≥. postlude and prelude George Balanchine, 1904–1983 104 Edwin Denby, 1903–1983 111 Balanchine and Beyond 113 The Magic of Mr. B 115 Couples 118 Putting a Little Orange in Their Life 124 Ives and Robbins 131 Modern Dance versus Classical Ballet 134 Changing the Guards 136 Patricia McBride’s Farewell 143 A Ballet’s Best Friend 146 Tragic Tropes and Anti-tropes 153 Apollonian Ventures 155 Village of Dancers 157 Chris and Friends 159 ∂. balanchine diaspora Mozart Violin Concerto 164 Cotillon 166 Fable in a Lucite Landscape 168 Miami City Ballet 175 Ur-texts 177 In Search of Repertory 179 Guarding the Legacy 182 Dances under Glass 186 Ballet, Big Time 190 Balanchine at Harvard 191 Links to a Legacy 193 Sparkle Plenty 196 Balanchinian Baubles 198 What Bodies Are For 200 Fateful Journeys 202 Decoding Balanchine 205 ∑. ballet in transit Forsythe’s Artifact 207 De Keersmaeker’s Elena’s Aria 209 Maguy Marin’s Babel Babel 210 Forsythe and Marin 212 Tetley’s La Ronde 214 Morris’s Drink to Me 216 Strangers in the Palace 218 Too Brief a Fling 223 Resurfacing 225 Survival Skills 231 Planet of Cool 237 Mind Matters 238 Lovelyland 240 Building Blocks 242 Poets Lost and Found 244 Dancing Americanness 248 Evolution/Devolution 251 Dreaming and Remembrance 254 A Century in Brief 258 Enigma in the Middle 267 ∏. on with the show No Biz Like It 275 Post-ballet Performance 277 Jerome Robbins’s Broadway 278 What They Did for Michael 280 Razzle 285 Center Stage 287 Billy Elliot 288 House on Hold 289 Crash Dancing 290 Braving the Elements 292 Hoop Tamer 296 Zaloomy Toons 297 Largely Bill Irwin 299 Clowns in Flight 301 Warm with Showers 303 Apple Pie 305 Multicult—The Show 307 Toes on Their Fingers and Drums in Their Heart 312 Tapstravaganza 314 Tap Meets Highbrow 317 Hearts on Fire, Feet on Ice 318 π. riffs and translations Portable Traditions 323 Swan Migrations 325 Toe Frolic 326 Trockin’ On 329 Decomposing Sugar Plums and Robot Mice 331 After-dinner Nuts 338 Nureyev’s Cinderella 340 Grigorovich’s The Golden Age 341 Anti-balletics 343 Yo, Jewels! 345 A Dream Awakes 347 See It Live 349 Waking Somewhere Else 351 Wayward Dancing 354 Private Domain 357 Mysterious Histories 360 Plain Folks’ Tales 363 Reclaiming the Ordinary 366 Pomo Retro Rite 370 Notes 379 Index 383 ...

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