The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance |
Contents
REHEARSAL | 1 |
THE DENISHAWN SUCCESSION | 11 |
Egypta St Denis 1910 | 15 |
BEGINNINGS | 23 |
Air for the G String Doris Humphrey 1928 | 26 |
Life of the Bee Humphrey 1929 | 36 |
1 | 39 |
Negro Spirituals Tamiris | 45 |
Errand into the Maze Graham 1947 | 200 |
Night Journey Graham 1947 | 206 |
BALANCHINES AMERICA | 210 |
The Four Temperaments Balanchine 1946 | 220 |
Agon | 227 |
Agon Balanchine 1957 | 233 |
Episodes | 235 |
Episodes Balanchine 1959 | 241 |
Primitive Mysteries Graham 1931 | 53 |
The Shakers Humphrey 1931 | 62 |
NEOCLASSICISM I | 68 |
Serenade George Balanchine 1935 | 69 |
New Dance Humphrey 1935 | 85 |
Passacaglia Humphrey 1938 | 94 |
Concerto Barocco Balanchine 1941 | 103 |
AMERICANA BALLET | 108 |
Frankie and Johnny Ruth Page and Bentley Stone | 109 |
Billy the Kid Loring | 122 |
Fancy Free Robbins | 134 |
Frontier Graham 1935 | 142 |
Pillar of Fire Antony Tudor 1942 | 157 |
Day on Earth Humphrey 1947 | 165 |
THE EPIC GRAHAM | 175 |
Letter to the World Graham 1940 | 179 |
Deaths and Entrances Graham 1943 | 185 |
Dark Meadow Graham 1946 | 194 |
ADOLESCENTS | 243 |
Interplay Robbins 1945 | 249 |
Moves Robbins 1959 | 259 |
CRYSTALLIZATION II | 271 |
Afternoon of a Faun Robbins 1953 | 273 |
Revelations Alvin Ailey 1960 | 289 |
Summerspace Merce Cunningham 1958 | 295 |
MEN DANCING | 305 |
Ted Shawns men dancers | 308 |
Angels of the Inmost Heaven Erick Hawkins 1972 | 319 |
NEOCLASSICISM II | 324 |
Septet Cunningham 1953 | 331 |
Harbinger Eliot Feld 1967 | 346 |
As Time Goes By Tharp 1973 | 356 |
Push Comes to Shove Tharp 1976 | 362 |
CHRONOLOGY | 367 |
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