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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The History of Ballet | |
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Let the History Begin ... | |
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Le Ballet: A Man's World | |
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Ballerinas and the Danse d'Ecole | |
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Gentle Women and Gentle Men of the Ballet | |
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The Pre-Romantic and Romantic Eras | |
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French Art in Danish and Russian Quarters | |
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Grand Pa Petipa and His Empire | |
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Russia Surpasses France | |
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Diaghilev Does Paris | |
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Ballet's Roving Ambassadress | |
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Nijinska and Neoclassicism | |
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George Balanchine in Europe | |
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Ballet Takes Root in Britain | |
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Fred and Margot | |
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Paris, Opera, and Ballet | |
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Soviet Russia, Nureyev, England, and the World | |
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Rudi in England and Around the World | |
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America, Ballet, and Balanchine | |
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America, New York City, and Ballet | |
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Beyond the Paris Opera and Beyond Paris | |
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Starry Nights | |
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A Top Three and More | |
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At War and Peace with Modern Dance | |
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Back in the USSR | |
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Far from Denmark | |
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Leading Male Dancers Lead | |
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Harlem, Cuba, China, Japan, South America | |
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Post-Script: Dancers, Dancers, Dancers | |
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The Dancers | |
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ballet | |
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Men and Women at Work | |
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Boys to Men | |
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Corpsmen and Middlemen | |
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Primo Ballerinos | |
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Corps de Ballet Feminin | |
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Queen Bees | |
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Looking At a Ballet | |
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Looking at Ballets | |
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Ballets Without Stories | |
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Getting Ballet on the Stage | |
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Revivals and Resurrections | |
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Salut du Roi | |
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The Famous Ballets | |
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At the Ballet | |
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Romantic Classical Ballet: Swan Lake | |
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Popular Beyond Ballet: The Nutcracker | |
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Classical Classical Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty | |
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Mature Romantic Ballet: Giselle | |
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Ballet Embodying the Ideal: La Sylphide | |
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Ballet of Mood: Les Sylphides | |
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Romantic Turning Classical: La Bayadere | |
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Renewing Classicism: Apollo | |
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Neo-Romanticism, Neo-Primitivism, and Neoclassicism: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Triple Bill | |
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Sunny and Funny and Fine: La Fille Mal Gardee | |
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Romantic: Small "r," Big Emotions: Romeo and Juliet | |
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Pushing and Shoving Ballet a Bit: Push Comes to Shove | |
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Glossary of Ballet Terms and Phrases | |
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Videography | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |