TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denby,Edwin
AU  - Cornfield,Robert
AU  - MacKay,William
TI  - Dance writings
SN  - 0394544161 (pbk.)
AV  - GV1599 .D39 1986
U1  - 792.8 20
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf, Distributed by Random House
KW  - Dance
KW  - Reviews
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [579]-581; Introduction / by Robert Cornfield --; Edwin Denby, 1903-1983 / by William MacKay --; From Modern Music; Nijinska's Noces --; Nijinsky's Faun ; Massine's Symphonie Fantastique ; American Ballet Caravan --; Graham's Chronicle ; Uday Shankar --; Balanchine's American Ballet --; Balanchine's Apollon ; American Ballet Caravan --; The World's Fair --; Massine and the new Monte Carlo --; Argentinita ; Some musicals ; Graham's American Document --; Modern dancers and human beings --; Ashton's Devil's Holiday and more Monte Carlo --; A note to composers --; Balanchine and Stravinsky : Poker Game and Baiser ; The Monte Carlo season --; Lifar as writer --; The Original Ballet Russe --; Graham's El Penitente and Letter to the World ; Balanchine's Balustrade --; Hanya Holm ; At the circus --; Kurt Jooss ; The Monte Carlo Ballet --; Ballet Theatre ; Graham's Punch and the Judy --; Carmen Amaya ; Isadora reconsidered ; Dance photographs ; Punch and the Judy revisited --; Fokine's Russian Soldier ; Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Balanchine's Elephant Ballet --; De Mille's Rodeo ; Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Massine's Aleko --; Balanchine and Tchaikovsky : Ballet Imperial ; Carmen Amaya ; Doris Humphrey --; Markova's dance rhythm ; Tudor's Romeo and Juliet --; From the New York Herald Tribune; The Nutcracker ; Massine's Three-Cornered Hat --; Dolin's Romantic Age --; Tudor's Dark Elegies ; Swan Lake --; Argentinita --; Charles Weidman --; Aleko ; Karen Conrad --; Loring's Billy the Kid --; Tudor's Romeo and Juliet revisited --; Danilova: pleasure in the grand style --; Ballet at Lewisohn: Les Sylphides and Petrouchka --; Swan Lake and Aleko at the Stadium --; Ballet Theatre and the Monte Carlo --; Massine's Capriccio Espagnol ; De Mille's Three Virgins ; Giselle --; Tudor's Gala Performance --; On commissioning new ballet scores --; Tudor and pantomime --; On meaning in dance --; Ballet technique --; The dance in film --; Balanchine and de Mille on Broadway --; Concert dancers in nightclubs --; Ice-Capades for war bonds --; Katherine Dunham --; About toe dancing --; How to judge a dancer --; Massine's Mademoiselle Angot --; Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Dolin's Pas de Quatre --; Lichine's Fair st Sorochinsk --; A correction --; Back to the Fair --; Regrets about Mademoiselle Angot --; Tudor's Lilac Garden ; Lichine's Helen of Troy --; Argentinita's Pictures of Goya ; Tudor's Judgment of Paris --; Tudor's Dim Lustre --; Dim Lustre and Romeo and Juliet --; A Ballet Theatre matinee --; A Ballet Theatre matinee --; The de Mille Touch --; Tchaikovsky at Ballet Theatre --; Billy the Kid and its dance faults --; Concerto Barocco at Needle Trades High School --; Alonso's Giselle --; Some ballet books --; Rosella Hightower ; Jerome Robbins --; Some faults of Ballet Theatre --; Argentinita at Carnegie Hall --; American Concert Ballet : three new choreographers --; Dudley, Maslow, Bates --; A recital of dance styles --; Anna Sokolow : Carmen Jones ; Baronova --; Asadata Dafora --; Graham's Deaths and Entrances and Salem Shore --; Paul Draper --; The Metropolitan Opera Ballet --; Sybil Shearer ; Carmen Amaya --; Deaths and Entrances revisited --; Henie's Ice Revue --; Skating as ballet --; Pearl Primus and Valerie Bettis --; Hanya Holm's Orestes --; Why not a New York ballet? --; Swan Lake in East Indian --; The Rockettes and rhythm --; Humphrey's Inquest --; A note on dance intelligence --; A forum on dance criticism --; Merce Cunningham --; Rosario and Antonio --; Nijinska's Etude --; De Mille's Tally-ho --; Beecham at the ballet --; Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Balanchine's Serenade --; Serenade --; A Monte Carlo matinee --; The Monte Carlo at City Center --; Nijinska's Ancient Russia and Snow Maiden --; Fancy Free --; Boris and Moylan in Serenade --; Fancy Free a second time --; Pearl Primus --; Dark Elegies --; A tribute to Yousekevitch --; Janet Reed : learning to star --; Markova's Giselle : Ballet Theatre's glory --; Where are the new serious ballets? --; Graham's intellectual fury --; Three Graham solos --; Graham's American Document and Primitive Mysteries --; Markova in Les Sylphides --; Hightower as Swan Queen --; A ballet lover's view of Martha Graham --; Ballet conducting : Beecham and Bernstein --; Marianne Moore on Pavlova --; The Monte Carlo minus Franklin --; Schéhérazade : a foundering warhorse --; Balanchine's Danses Concertantes --; The Monte Carlo's Coppélia --; Coppélia tells the facts of life --; Balanchine's Bourgeois Gentilhomme --; Le Bourgeois transformed --; Pearl Primus on Broadway --; Lichine's Graduation Ball ; Toumanova --; Ballet Theatre back in stride --; Balanchine's Waltz Academy --; Riabouchinska and Toumanova --; Toumanova in Giselle --; Princess Aurora and Petipa --; Toumanova's show --; Don Quixote Pas de Deux --; Carnaval --; A fault in Ballet Theatre's dancing --; Ballet International --; Caton's Sebastian --; Semenoff's Memories ; Nijinska's Bolero --; Nijinska's Pictures at an Exhibition --; Toumanova and Dolin at Ballet Theatre --; Ballet International at two weeks --; Cobos's Mute Wife --; About Ballet decoration --; Meaning in The Nutcracker --; Dali's Mad Tristan --; International's farewell --; Ballet International in retrospect --; Cunningham solo --; India, Haiti, Africa --; On the Town ; Sing Out, Sweet Land ; Song of Norway --; Dudley, Maslow, Bales and Cunningham --; Deaths and Entrances --; Marie Marchowsky and Jean Erdman --; More Argentinita --; Ballet Imperial --; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme --; Danses Concertantes ; Nijinska's Snow Maiden --; Page and Stone's Frankie and Johnny --; Frankie and Johnny : an indecent ballet? --; Balanchine's Mozartiana --; Coppélia : ballet's masterpiece of comedy --; Balanchine's Pas de Deux --; Balanchine : ballet magician --; The Monte Carlo now --; Nijinska's Harvest Time --; Massine's Moonlight Sonata --; Markova at Ballet Theatre --; Tudor's Undertow --; The Toumanova problem --; Ballet Theatre's season --; Valerie Bettis --; Appalachian Spring --; Graham's Herodiade --; Graham's John Brown --; Cunningham's Mysterious Adventure --; Appalachian Spring and Herodiade a second time --; Concerto Barocco : Bach in bathing suits --; Danilova and rhythm --; Danilova and rhythm --; Concerto Barocco --; Bolender's Comedia Balletica --; To Argentinita --; Undertow revisited --; Michael Kidd's On Stage --; Semenoff's Gift of the Magi --; Apollo : the power of poetry --; Alonso and Eglevsky in Giselle --; Chagall's Firebird --; Taras's Graziana --; Apollo --; Ups and downs at Ballet Theatre --; Robbins's Interplay --; Robbins's Interplay --; Markova's failing --; The American Ballet School at Carnegie Hall --; Ballet Theatre in decline ... and a farewell --; Reviews and Appreciations; The Monte Caro distracted --; Ballet Theatre vs. Hurok : a war of attrition --; Ballet Theatre wins --; Wigman after the war --; Ashton's Cinderella --; An open letter about the Paris Opera Ballet --; A letter about Ulanova --; A letter about Ulanova and the Royal Danish Ballet --; Impressions of Markova at the Met --; Obituary for Ballet --; Stars of the Russian Ballet : a film review --; Romeo and Juliet : a film review --; The Bolshoi at the Met --; A note on Kabuki --; The Royal Ballet in New York --; Martha at sixty-eight --; Paul Taylor --; Merce Cunningham --; Balanchine and the New York City Ballet; A note on Balanchine's present style --; The Four Temperaments --; A letter on New York City's Ballet --; A letter on Caracole --; Some thoughts about classicism and George Balanchine --; Opus 34 --; The Nutcracker --; Western Symphony and Ivesiana --; Roma --; Three sides of Agon --; In the abstract --; Liebeslieder Walzer --; Electronics --; Balanchine choreographing --; A Midsummer Night's Dream --; Don Quixote --; Balanchine's poetics --; Essays; Notes on Nijinsky photographs --; Flight of the dancer --; A technical weakness of our male dancers --; Ballet : the American position --; A briefing in American ballet --; Against meaning in ballet --; Dance criticism --; Superficial thoughts on foreign classicism --; Dancers, buildings, and people in the streets --; Forms in motion and in thought --; Appendix: From the Postscript to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets ; Introduction to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets / by Frank O'Hara
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