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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Masters and Traditions
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Part 1
France and the Classical Origins of Ballet
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Chapter 1
Kings of Dance
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Chapter 2
The Enlightenment and the Story Ballet
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Chapter 3
The French Revolution in Ballet
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98 |
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Chapter 4
Romantic Illusions and the Rise of the Ballerina
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Chapter 5
Scandinavian Orthodoxy: The Danish Style
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Chapter 6
Italian Heresy: Pantomime, Virtuosity, and Italian Ballet
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Part 2
Light from the East: Russian Worlds of Art
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Chapter 7
Tsars of Dance: Imperial Russian Classicism
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Chapter 8
East Goes West: Russian Modernism and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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290 |
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Chapter 9
Left Behind? Communist Ballet from Stalin to Brezhnev
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341 |
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Chapter 10
Alone in Europe: The British Moment
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Chapter 11
The American Century I: Russian Beginnings
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Chapter 12
The American Century II: The New York Scene
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Epilogue: The Masters Are Dead and Gone
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Notes
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551 |
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Bibliography
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Index
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Illustration Credits
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