Contents -- Voice of the Zeitgeist: Sally Banes and Her Times -- Electrification -- Introduction -- 1. Dance before Midnight: Dance Journalism, 1974-87 -- Substanceless Brutality -- Bizarre Newborn Universe -- About Quarry, about Meredith Monk -- Disco Dance: Boogie Down the Blues -- The Art of Ballezz -- Changing and Growing and Changing Colors -- Stepping into Time: Charles Cook, Jane Goldberg, and Andrea Levine -- David Gordon, or, the Ambiguities -- Merce Cunningham 101: An Introductory Course -- Douglas Dunn Talking Dancing -- Patterns -- A Walk on the Wild Side -- Bolshoi Bravura -- Notes on Some Dances -- Rhythm for the Eyes, Ears, and Soles -- Awhirl in Every Port -- Under Glass -- Trisha Brown and Fujiko Nakaya Play Misty -- "Men Together" and Bloolips -- Paul Taylor Dance Company -- 10¢ a Dance: The Funds Over -- Nearly Sort of Not Dance Maybe -- Choreographer Steps Spryly into Television -- 2. Between the Arts:Interdisciplinary Writings on the Arts in Culture -- From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization":The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs -- Theatre of Operations: Stuart Sherman's Fifteen Films -- Imagination and Play: The Films of Ericka Beckman -- The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet -- Homage, Plagiarism, Allusion, Comment, Quotation: Negotiating Choreographic Appropriation -- Institutionalizing Avant-Garde Performance: A Hidden History of University Patronage in the United States -- Olfactory Performances -- 3. Beyond the Millennium: Recent Dance Writings -- Our Hybrid Tradition -- The Scent of a Dance -- Choreographing Community: Dancing in The Kitchen -- "A New Kind of Beauty": From Classicism to Karole Armitage's Early Ballets -- TV-Dancing Women: Music Videos, Camera-Choreography, and Feminist Theory -- Elephants in Tutus -- Contributors -- Index.