CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women in Dance History, the Doubly Invisible -- PATRONAGE AND POWER -- 1 Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514 -- 2 Fabritio Caroso's Patronesses -- 3 At the Queen's Command: Henrietta Maria and the Development of the English Masque -- PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 4 The Female Ballet Troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 -- 5 Françoise Prévost: The Unauthorized Biography -- 6 Marie Sallé, a Wise Professional Womanof Influence -- 7 In Pursuit of the Dancer-Actress -- WORLDVIEWS -- 8 Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion -- 9 Galanterie and Gloire: Women's Will and the Eighteenth-Century Worldview in Les Indes galantes -- Contributors -- Index.