At the vanishing point : a critic looks at dance / [by] Marcia B. Siegel.

I. BALLET: THE UNCERTAIN ESTABLISHMENT / Troubles, Trifles, and the Return of a Prodigal Son ; New York City Ballet Opens ; Suite No. 3 ; Kodaly Dances ; Home on the Back Burner ; The Goldberg Variations ; Square Dance ; PAMTGG ; Another Opening ; Dancers Upstage Repertory ; Makarova's Ballet Theatre Debut ; A Rose for Miss Emily ; ABT Ending Season ; A Great Opening Night ; Paquita ; La Sylphide ; Romeo and Juliet ; Romeo and Juliet (II) ; The Miraculous Mandarin ; Every Inch a King ; Bread and Circuses ; More Geese than Swans ; Petrouchka: A Modern Fairy Tale ; The Green Table: Movement Masterpiece ; Maximiliano Zomosa (1937-1969) ; Dancing on a Precipice ; Esprit de Joie ; Eliot Feld and the Extinct Metaphor ; They're Alive. That Counts ; Romance ; The Gods Amused ; Theatre ; Noblesse Oblige ; Ballet Patronage: How Not to Do It -- II. POP DANCE: THE DISPOSABLE NOW / Creeping Orthodoxy ; Moon Worship, circa 1968 ; Spare the Confetti ; Trinity ; Reflections ; Valentine ; Real Rock Ballet: Why? ; Louis Falco ; Lar Lubovitch ; Béjart Opens ; Poster Art ; I Can't Hear the Music ; Dance Muzak -- III. BLACK DANCE: A NEW SEPARATISM / Starting with Dance ; New York Goes Tap-Happy ; Selling soul ; A-Changin' ; Flowers ; Choral Dances ; Child of the Earth ; Cry ; Modern Dance-with Pizzazz ; Dance Theatre of Harlem Debut ; Home to Harlem ; The Pattern-Breakers; -- IV. MODERN DANCE: THE PROCESS OF REDEFINITION /
Are Graham's Gods Dead? ; Graham in Brooklyn ; Martha, or Mother ; Mailing Her Letter to the World ; Ex-Post-Graham ; Early Floating and Twilight Turbulence ; Zone of Safety ; Something Beyond Steps ; Spoils of Success ; Food for the Eye ; Big Bertha ; The Theater of Vision ; Deus ex Machina ; Nikolais' Theater of Marvels ; Scenario ; The Reluctant Showoff ; The Real McCoy ; Reaction and Vanguard: Which is Which? ; Cunningham's Here and There ; Come in, Earth. Are You There? ; More than the Museum -- V. EXPERIMENTAL DANCE: FIREBRANDS AND VISIONARIES / Televanilla: Theater in Two Flavors ; Working Out ; Marathon at Manhattan School ; Smut and Other Diversions ; Radicalizing the Dance Audience ; Progress in a New Environment ; Two Museum Pieces ; Trip in a Time Machine ; Dancing in the Trees and over the Roofs ; Tasks and Games ; Psyched Out ; Mind's-Eye Theater ; Virgin Vessel ; Sensitivity Performing ; Jazzing.