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List of Illustrations "You can be Bcnno . . .". 2 Drawing by Edward Gorey Pierina Lcgnani in Swan Lake, 1895 16 Lupe Serrano with Enrique Martinez and Royes Fernandez in Swan Lake, 1958 16 Alexis D. Boulgakov in Swan Lake, 1895 :7 Celia Franca with Erik Bruhn in Swan Lake, 1967 17 "No, you can't be Benno. . .". 18 Drawing by Edward Gorey Auguste Vestris, English caricature, 1781 20 Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins in George Balanchinc's Chaconne 40 Merce Cunningham's Locale 41 Jim May in Ann Sokolow's Dreams 42 Dana Reitz's Phrase Collection 42 "Primavera" (detail) by Botticelli 44 Merrill Ashley in Balanchine's Ballo dalla Regina 58 Ze'eva Cohen in Frances Alenikoff's "The One of No Way" 58 Twyla Tharp's "Eight Jelly Rolls" 59 Larry Grenier as Bottom in Frederick Ashton's The Dream 60 Drawing by B. Petty 62 Leaping Dolphins 78 Mikhail Baryshmkov in Le Corsair 78 Charles Moulton's Three Person Precision Ball Passing 79 Alicia Markova in "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" 82 Yuri Vladimirov and Natalia Besmertnova in Yuri Grigorovich's Ivan the Terrible 103 Bertram Ross and Martha Graham in Graham's Night Journey 103 Terry Orr in Antony Tudor's Dark Elegies 104 Doris Humphrey's New Dance 104 Allegra Kent and Arthur Mitchell in Balanchinc's Agon 105 Meredith Monk's Quarry 105 "No, thanks. I am dancing." Drawing by Saxon 108 August Bournonville's Napoli 135 Paul Taylor's Aureole 135 Jose Limon and Erik Bruhn in Limon's The Moor's Pavane 136 Swan Lake, American Ballet Theatre 138 Remy Charlip's "Garden Lilacs" 163 Douglas Dunn's Lazy Madge 163 Laura Dean's Music 163 Picasso's costumes in the Jeffrey Ballet production of Leonide Massine's Parade 164 David Gordon's What Happened 164 Nelson Goodman's Hockey Seen 165 Bart Cook and Sara Leland in Jerome Robbins' Dances at a Cathering 166 Graham Fletcher and Rudolf Nureyev in "Swine Lake" 166 Natalie Makarova and Ivan Nagy in Swan Lake, 1971 167 "To those of us with real understanding, dancing is the only pure art form!' Drawing by Schulz 168 ...

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