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100 1 _aDenby, Edwin
_d1903-1983
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aDance writings /
_cEdwin Denby ; edited by Robert Cornfield and William MacKay.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bKnopf :
_bDistributed by Random House,
_c1986.
300 _axi, 608 p. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. [579]-581.
505 _tIntroduction / by Robert Cornfield --
_tEdwin Denby, 1903-1983 / by William MacKay --
_tFrom Modern Music :
_tNijinska's Noces --
_tNijinsky's Faun ; Massine's Symphonie Fantastique ; American Ballet Caravan --
_tGraham's Chronicle ; Uday Shankar --
_tBalanchine's American Ballet --
_tBalanchine's Apollon ; American Ballet Caravan --
_tThe World's Fair --
_tMassine and the new Monte Carlo --
_tArgentinita ; Some musicals ; Graham's American Document --
_tModern dancers and human beings --
_tAshton's Devil's Holiday and more Monte Carlo --
_tA note to composers --
_tBalanchine and Stravinsky : Poker Game and Baiser ; The Monte Carlo season --
_tLifar as writer --
_tThe Original Ballet Russe --
_tGraham's El Penitente and Letter to the World ; Balanchine's Balustrade --
_tHanya Holm ; At the circus --
_tKurt Jooss ; The Monte Carlo Ballet --
_tBallet Theatre ; Graham's Punch and the Judy --
_tCarmen Amaya ; Isadora reconsidered ; Dance photographs ; Punch and the Judy revisited --
_tFokine's Russian Soldier ; Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Balanchine's Elephant Ballet --
_tDe Mille's Rodeo ; Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Massine's Aleko --
_tBalanchine and Tchaikovsky : Ballet Imperial ; Carmen Amaya ; Doris Humphrey --
_tMarkova's dance rhythm ; Tudor's Romeo and Juliet --
_tFrom the New York Herald Tribune :
_tThe Nutcracker ; Massine's Three-Cornered Hat --
_tDolin's Romantic Age --
_tTudor's Dark Elegies ; Swan Lake --
_tArgentinita --
_tCharles Weidman --
_tAleko ; Karen Conrad --
_tLoring's Billy the Kid --
_tTudor's Romeo and Juliet revisited --
_tDanilova: pleasure in the grand style --
_tBallet at Lewisohn: Les Sylphides and Petrouchka --
_tSwan Lake and Aleko at the Stadium --
_tBallet Theatre and the Monte Carlo --
_tMassine's Capriccio Espagnol ; De Mille's Three Virgins ; Giselle --
_tTudor's Gala Performance --
_tOn commissioning new ballet scores --
_tTudor and pantomime --
_tOn meaning in dance --
_tBallet technique --
_tThe dance in film --
_tBalanchine and de Mille on Broadway --
_tConcert dancers in nightclubs --
_tIce-Capades for war bonds --
_tKatherine Dunham --
_tAbout toe dancing --
_tHow to judge a dancer --
_tMassine's Mademoiselle Angot --
_tTudor's Pillar of Fire ; Dolin's Pas de Quatre --
_tLichine's Fair st Sorochinsk --
_tA correction --
_tBack to the Fair --
_tRegrets about Mademoiselle Angot --
_tTudor's Lilac Garden ; Lichine's Helen of Troy --
_tArgentinita's Pictures of Goya ; Tudor's Judgment of Paris --
_tTudor's Dim Lustre --
_tDim Lustre and Romeo and Juliet --
_tA Ballet Theatre matinee --
_tA Ballet Theatre matinee --
_tThe de Mille Touch --
_tTchaikovsky at Ballet Theatre --
_tBilly the Kid and its dance faults --
_tConcerto Barocco at Needle Trades High School --
_tAlonso's Giselle --
_tSome ballet books --
_tRosella Hightower ; Jerome Robbins --
_tSome faults of Ballet Theatre --
_tArgentinita at Carnegie Hall --
_tAmerican Concert Ballet : three new choreographers --
_tDudley, Maslow, Bates --
_tA recital of dance styles --
_tAnna Sokolow : Carmen Jones ; Baronova --
_tAsadata Dafora --
_tGraham's Deaths and Entrances and Salem Shore --
_tPaul Draper --
_tThe Metropolitan Opera Ballet --
_tSybil Shearer ; Carmen Amaya --
_tDeaths and Entrances revisited --
_tHenie's Ice Revue --
_tSkating as ballet --
_tPearl Primus and Valerie Bettis --
_tHanya Holm's Orestes --
_tWhy not a New York ballet? --
_tSwan Lake in East Indian --
_tThe Rockettes and rhythm --
_tHumphrey's Inquest --
_tA note on dance intelligence --
_tA forum on dance criticism --
_tMerce Cunningham --
_tRosario and Antonio --
_tNijinska's Etude --
_tDe Mille's Tally-ho --
_tBeecham at the ballet --
_tNijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Balanchine's Serenade --
_tSerenade --
_tA Monte Carlo matinee --
_tThe Monte Carlo at City Center --
_tNijinska's Ancient Russia and Snow Maiden --
_tFancy Free --
_tBoris and Moylan in Serenade --
_tFancy Free a second time --
_tPearl Primus --
_tDark Elegies --
_tA tribute to Yousekevitch --
_tJanet Reed : learning to star --
_tMarkova's Giselle : Ballet Theatre's glory --
_tWhere are the new serious ballets? --
_tGraham's intellectual fury --
_tThree Graham solos --
_tGraham's American Document and Primitive Mysteries --
_tMarkova in Les Sylphides --
_tHightower as Swan Queen --
_tA ballet lover's view of Martha Graham --
_tBallet conducting : Beecham and Bernstein --
_tMarianne Moore on Pavlova --
_tThe Monte Carlo minus Franklin --
_tSchéhérazade : a foundering warhorse --
_tBalanchine's Danses Concertantes --
_tThe Monte Carlo's Coppélia --
_tCoppélia tells the facts of life --
_tBalanchine's Bourgeois Gentilhomme --
_tLe Bourgeois transformed --
_tPearl Primus on Broadway --
_tLichine's Graduation Ball ; Toumanova --
_tBallet Theatre back in stride --
_tBalanchine's Waltz Academy --
_tRiabouchinska and Toumanova --
_tToumanova in Giselle --
_tPrincess Aurora and Petipa --
_tToumanova's show --
_tDon Quixote Pas de Deux --
_tCarnaval --
_tA fault in Ballet Theatre's dancing --
_tBallet International --
_tCaton's Sebastian --
_tSemenoff's Memories ; Nijinska's Bolero --
_tNijinska's Pictures at an Exhibition --
_tToumanova and Dolin at Ballet Theatre --
_tBallet International at two weeks --
_tCobos's Mute Wife --
_tAbout Ballet decoration --
_tMeaning in The Nutcracker --
_tDali's Mad Tristan --
_tInternational's farewell --
_tBallet International in retrospect --
_tCunningham solo --
_tIndia, Haiti, Africa --
_tOn the Town ; Sing Out, Sweet Land ; Song of Norway --
_tDudley, Maslow, Bales and Cunningham --
_tDeaths and Entrances --
_tMarie Marchowsky and Jean Erdman --
_tMore Argentinita --
_tBallet Imperial --
_tLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme --
_tDanses Concertantes ; Nijinska's Snow Maiden --
_tPage and Stone's Frankie and Johnny --
_tFrankie and Johnny : an indecent ballet? --
_tBalanchine's Mozartiana --
_tCoppélia : ballet's masterpiece of comedy --
_tBalanchine's Pas de Deux --
_tBalanchine : ballet magician --
_tThe Monte Carlo now --
_tNijinska's Harvest Time --
_tMassine's Moonlight Sonata --
_tMarkova at Ballet Theatre --
_tTudor's Undertow --
_tThe Toumanova problem --
_tBallet Theatre's season --
_tValerie Bettis --
_tAppalachian Spring --
_tGraham's Herodiade --
_tGraham's John Brown --
_tCunningham's Mysterious Adventure --
_tAppalachian Spring and Herodiade a second time --
_tConcerto Barocco : Bach in bathing suits --
_tDanilova and rhythm --
_tDanilova and rhythm --
_tConcerto Barocco --
_tBolender's Comedia Balletica --
_tTo Argentinita --
_tUndertow revisited --
_tMichael Kidd's On Stage --
_tSemenoff's Gift of the Magi --
_tApollo : the power of poetry --
_tAlonso and Eglevsky in Giselle --
_tChagall's Firebird --
_tTaras's Graziana --
_tApollo --
_tUps and downs at Ballet Theatre --
_tRobbins's Interplay --
_tRobbins's Interplay --
_tMarkova's failing --
_tThe American Ballet School at Carnegie Hall --
_tBallet Theatre in decline ... and a farewell --
_tReviews and Appreciations :
_tThe Monte Caro distracted --
_tBallet Theatre vs. Hurok : a war of attrition --
_tBallet Theatre wins --
_tWigman after the war --
_tAshton's Cinderella --
_tAn open letter about the Paris Opera Ballet --
_tA letter about Ulanova --
_tA letter about Ulanova and the Royal Danish Ballet --
_tImpressions of Markova at the Met --
_tObituary for Ballet --
_tStars of the Russian Ballet : a film review --
_tRomeo and Juliet : a film review --
_tThe Bolshoi at the Met --
_tA note on Kabuki --
_tThe Royal Ballet in New York --
_tMartha at sixty-eight --
_tPaul Taylor --
_tMerce Cunningham --
_tBalanchine and the New York City Ballet :
_tA note on Balanchine's present style --
_tThe Four Temperaments --
_tA letter on New York City's Ballet --
_tA letter on Caracole --
_tSome thoughts about classicism and George Balanchine --
_tOpus 34 --
_tThe Nutcracker --
_tWestern Symphony and Ivesiana --
_tRoma --
_tThree sides of Agon --
_tIn the abstract --
_tLiebeslieder Walzer --
_tElectronics --
_tBalanchine choreographing --
_tA Midsummer Night's Dream --
_tDon Quixote --
_tBalanchine's poetics --
_tEssays :
_tNotes on Nijinsky photographs --
_tFlight of the dancer --
_tA technical weakness of our male dancers --
_tBallet : the American position --
_tA briefing in American ballet --
_tAgainst meaning in ballet --
_tDance criticism --
_tSuperficial thoughts on foreign classicism --
_tDancers, buildings, and people in the streets --
_tForms in motion and in thought --
_tAppendix: 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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_aCornfield, Robert
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