Chapter 1: Nikolais returns / Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Chapter 4: Artisans of space / Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / DOCUMENTS : Before Henry Street: An undated memoir / On Nikolais / Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman. Randy Martin -- Claudia Gitelman -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Yvonne Hardt -- Rebekah Kowal -- Herbert Blau -- Bob Gilmore -- Philip Auslander -- Mark Franko -- Alwin Nikolais -- Murray Louis -- compiled and edited by Naima Prevots -- researched and compiled by Jana Feinman -- compiled by Claudia Gitelman.