Three centuries of ballet : with eighty-four plates in half-tone / Cornelius Conyn.

Ch I. Cultural Development of the Dance / Origin ; Evolution ; Musical Interpretation ; Birth of Ballet ; Technical Foundations ; Coda -- Ch II. Classical and Romantic Ballet / What's in a Name? ; Ballet in its Infancy ; Development in Europe ; Aims of Classical Interpretation -- Ch III. Variations on a Ballet Theme / National Forms of ballet ; Transition ; Modern Expressionist Groups ; Future -- IV. The Diaghilev Era / The Company and its Leader ; The Three periods of the Ballet Russe ; The Artists ; Successors of the Ballet Russe -- V. The Twentieth Century / Revolt against Academic Principles ; Modern-Academic Ballet ; Pre-war Development ; Post-war Developments -- VI. Revolution in the Dance World / Greek dancing and Eurhthymics ; The Central-European Schools ; The Survivors -- VII. Followers of the Central-European Schools / The Europeans ; Combination of ballet and Folk-Dance ; Influence on Oriental Dancers -- VIII. Famous Ballet Dancers / The Rôle of the Dancer ; The Eighteenth Century ; The Nineteenth Century ; And up to our own Day -- IX. Choreography and Choreographers / Background ; The Master Choreographer ; Leonid Massine ; George Balanchine and Others -- X. Elements of the Stage Dance / Music ; Dance Style ; Décor ; Costume -- XI. Literature and the Ballet / Ballet and Dance Theatre ; Famous Ballet Themes ; Literary Values in Modern Ballet -- XII. The Dance in Spain / The Bull-fight considered as a Form of Ballet ; Regional Dancing ; The Gipsy Influence ; Modern Stage Dancing -- XIII. Creation of a Ballet / Initiation ; Collaboration ; Les Forces Errantes -- XIV. Epilogue: From Tribal Dance to Ballet Blanc / Dark Africa ; The Maori "Haka-Haka" ; Polynesian Rhythms ; The Royal Ballet of Java ; Trance Dancing in Bali ; Cuardro Flamenco ; Metropolitan Interlude ; Ballroom Dancing ; Au Revoir to Ballet.