Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One Moving into the 20th Century: 1811-1900 -- François Delsarte -- Émile Jaques-Dalcroze -- Rudolf Laban -- Loïe Fuller -- Serge Diaghilev -- Isadora Duncan -- Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn -- Michel Fokine -- Mary Wigman -- Vaslav Nijinsky -- Asadata Dafora -- Michio Ito -- Hanya Holm -- Martha Graham and Louis Horst -- The Era's Influences: Philosophical, Psychological and Sociological -- Doris Humphrey -- Léonide Massine -- Chapter Two The 20th Century: 1900 to 1910 -- George Balanchine -- Frederick Ashton -- Kurt Jooss -- Agnes de Mille and Antony Tudor -- José Limón -- Birgit Cullberg -- Erick Hawkins -- Katherine Dunham -- Chapter Three 1910 to 1920 -- Anna Sokolow -- Alwin Nikolais -- Sophie Maslow -- Fresh Approaches to the Same Music -- The Rite of Spring -- Jerome Robbins -- Merce Cunningham -- Pearl Primus -- Chapter Four 1920 to 1930 -- Anna Halprin -- Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey -- Roland Petit -- Glen Tetley -- Maurice Béjart -- Chapter Five 1930 to 1940 -- Donald McKayle -- Paul Taylor -- Alvin Ailey -- New Dance Group -- The 92nd Street Y (New York) -- Trisha Brown -- Chapter Six 1940 to 1950 -- Garth Fagan -- Pina Bausch -- Twyla Tharp -- Meredith Monk -- Carolyn Carlson -- Lar Lubovitch -- Mats Ek -- Laura Dean -- Butoh -- Ulysses Dove -- Jir.í Kylián -- Richard Alston -- William Forsythe -- Chapter Seven 1950 to 1960 -- Elizabeth Streb -- Siobhan Davies -- Bill T. Jones -- Ohad Naharin -- Karole Armitage -- Meryl Tankard -- James Kudelka -- Stephen Petronio -- Mark Morris -- Nacho Duato -- Angelin Preljocaj -- Claude Brumachon -- David Parsons -- Dance Funding -- Chapter Eight 1960 to 1970 -- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker -- Philippe Decouflé -- Michael Clark -- Postmodern Dance -- Contemporary Technique i.

Tero Saarinen -- Sylvie Guillem -- Lightfoot León -- Dance Theater Workshop / New York Live Arts -- Mia Michaels -- Helen Pickett -- Shen Wei -- Alexei Ratmansky -- Pam Tanowitz -- Trey McIntyre -- Chapter Nine 1970 to 1980 -- Wayne McGregor -- Santee Smith -- Pilobolus -- Two Dance Spaces: The Kitchen and The Yard -- Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan -- Christopher Wheeldon -- Robert Battle -- Danspace Project -- Akram Khan -- Hofesh Shechter -- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet -- Sonya Tayeh -- Kyle Abraham -- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago -- Dance Umbrella -- River North Chicago Dance Company -- Chapter Ten The 1980s and 1990s -- Contemporary Technique ii -- Brooklyn Academy of Music -- The Joyce Theatre -- Alonzo King LINES Ballet -- Lyon Dance Biennale -- Joanna Haigood's Zacco Dance Theatre -- Monica Bill Barnes & Company -- DanceNOW NYC -- Chunky Move -- Older Dancers -- Venice Biennale -- Chapter Eleven 2000 and Beyond: The New Century -- Sadler's Wells -- Contemporary Dance Presenters -- Baryshnikov Arts Center -- AscenDance Project -- La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival -- Dancing on the Edge Festival -- Center for Performance Research (CPR) -- Ballet Across America -- Jacoby and Pronk -- Bibliography -- Books -- Selected Websites -- Videos/DVDs/Films -- Index.