Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings

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| 327 Index Page numbers in bold indicate photos. Abrera, Stella, 237 accumulated structure, 202 Acosta, Carlos, 246, 248 Acosta, Yonah, 249 Acrobats of God, 136 Adam, Julia, 260 Adams, Carolyn, 184 Adams, Diana, 133 Adams, John, 260 Aedo, Raquel, 143, 161 aerial dancing, 213–16 Africano, Nicholas, 61 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (Rainer), 143 Afternoon Ball (Tharp), 266–67 Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky), 268 Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins), 242, 243, 245 After the Rain (Wheeldon), 255, 270, 271, 299, 322 “Against Interpretation” (Sontag), xix, 50 aging of dancers, 29–31, 110–11, 138–41, 156 Agnoletti, Derrick, 321 Agon, 132–34, 244 aiDs, 66–67, 81, 163–69 Aigi, Alexey, 125 Ailey, Alvin, xxiii, 110, 142, 144, 158, 163, 182–83, 193 Akalaitis, Joanne, 122 Akram Khan Company, 261–62 Alenikoff, Frances, 111, 140 Alexander, Julie, 234 Allyn, Jerri, 73 Aloff, Mindy, 107 Alonso, Alicia, 246–47 Alonso, Fernando, 249 Alovert, Nina, 144 Alum, Manuel, 9 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, xxii, 148, 202, 208 Amagatsu, Ushio, 120 Amelan, Bjorn, 201 American Ballet Theatre, 177, 180, 225, 236–38, 299, 303, 307 American Dance Festival, 10, 124, 155, 184, 191, 197, 200, 217, 285 American Dance Guild, 110–11 American Sign Language, 86 Americans with Disabilities Act, 166 AmountBoyz, 311 Ananiashvili, Nina, 248 Anderson, Laurie, 108, 305 Andrianov, Andrej, 218 And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace, 292–93 Angle, Jared, 272 Angle, Tyler, 244, 255, 257, 272 ankoko butoh, 120–23 Anna, Ikea, and I (Mapp), 304 Anonymous Portrait (Allyn), 73 Antic Meet (Cunningham), 305 Apollo, 206 Apollo’s Angels (Homans), 298–300 Appalachian Spring (Graham), 136 appropriation, 303–6 The Architecture of Seeing, 186 Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 150 Armatrading, Joan, 72 Armitage, Karole, 72–73, 158 Armleder, John, 34 Aronofsky, Darren, 307, 310 Arpino, Gerald, 4, 114 Arthur, Charthel, 4 The Art of Making Dances (Humphrey), 80 328 | Index Arun, Vikas, 311 Askegard, Charles, 132 Astaire, Fred, xxiii, 45–49, 46, 87, 95 Astarte (Joffrey), 321 Astral Convertible (T. Brown), 192 Atlas, Charles, 72–73, 136, 161 Austin, Lynn, 155–56 azidothymidine (aZt), 167 Azrieli, Anna, 234 Bacchanal (Duncan), 228 Baeyer, Christopher von, 116 Baganova, Tatiana, 218, 220 Bahok (Khan), 261–62 Baker, James F., 227 Baker, Robb, 14, 17 Bakst, Leon, 268 Balanchine, George: on aging of dancers, 31; and choreography, 206, 212; and diversity, 291; and Dunham, 148; and “the elevator,” 173; New York City Ballet performances of, 244–45, 256; politeness and future of ballet, 298–99; and Whelan, 131–34, 223 Baldwin, Mark, 136 Bales, Bill, 5 ballet: modern dance in Russia, 217–20; politeness and future of, 298–300. See also specific dancers and companies Ballet Hispanico, 288, 291 Ballet Imperial, 132 Ballet Nacional de Cuba, 246–50 Ballet Nègre, 147 Ballets Russes, 268 Ballett Frankfurt, 299 Bamboo Blues, 270, 272 Banes, Sally, xiii, xix, 1, 14–15, 65, 75, 88 Bar, Ellen, 272 Barry, Sebastian, 152 Barth, John, 77–78 Bartosik, Kimberly, 316 Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 45–49, 48, 117– 18, 142–46, 157–62, 171, 178 Batash, Ido, 278 Batsheva Dance Company, 208–10, 278–81 Batty Moves (Zollar), 183 Bauman, Art, 5, 12 Bausch, Pina, xxiv, 69–71, 209, 270, 292 Bausch, Richard, 286–87 Beat Club, 311 the Beatles, 6–7, 10 Beatty, Talley, 149, 183 Beauchesne, Eric, 296 Becker, MJ, 83–84, 84, 88–90 Beckford, Ruth, 193 Be’er, Rami, 278, 280 The Beginning of the End of the . . . (Gordon), 21 Béjart, Maurice, 142 Belafonte, Julie, 149–50 Belilove, Lori, 228–29 Beloserkovsky, Maxim, 170–74, 171, 237 Belton, Owen, 297, 302 Ben-Itzak, Paul, xx Benjamin, Leanne, 248 Bennett, Jamie, 318 Bennett, Michael, 163 Bennington College, xvii, 5, 7, 10, 14–15, 92, 97 Bennington College Judson Project, 114, 157, 240 Berg, Yossi, 279 Berliner Festwochen, 32–36 Bernd, John, 67, 163 Bernstein, Leonard, 245 Besserer, Rob, 153–54 Beyoncé, 290 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, 292–94 Big Apple Circus, 42–44 Big Mama Thornton, 219 Bigonzetti, Mauro, 242, 255 Big Science (Anderson), 305 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company , 163, 200 Binyamini, Shachar, 280–81 Black, Maggie, 11, 175 blacks in dance, 182–85 Index | 329 Blackstone, Judith, 9 Black Suzanne (Jones), 201 Black Swan (film), 307–8 Blackwood, Michael, xx Blankshine, Robert, 163 Blinx, Andy, 88 Block, René, 36 blogging, 286–87 Blom, Lynne Anne, 75–80 Blossom, Beverly, 111 Blues for the...