Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Writing Criticism/History -- 1. Jill Johnston: Signaling Through the Flames -- 2. Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley's "What Is Going on in a Dance?" (with Noël Carroll) -- 3. Criticism as Ethnography -- 4. On Your Fingertips: Writing Dance Criticism -- 5. Power and the Dancing Body -- II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde -- 6. Balanchine and Black Dance -- 7. An Introduction to the Ballets Suédois -- 8. Soirée de Paris -- 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's Ballet Manifestos -- 10. Merce Cunningham's Story -- 11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll) -- III. The African-American Connection -- 12. To the Beat, Y'All: Breaking Is Hard to Do -- 13. Breakdancing: A Reporter's Story -- 14. Lock Steady -- 15. Critic's Choice: Breakdancing -- 16. Breaking -- 17. A House Is Not a Home -- 18. Breaking Changing -- 19. The Pleasin' in Teasin' -- 20. The Moscow Charleston: Black Jazz Dancers in the Soviet Union -- IV. Other Subversions: Politics and Popular Dance -- 21. Stepping High: Fred Astaire's Drunk Dances -- 22. The Men at John Allen's Dance House -- 23. Red Shoes: The Workers' Dance League of the 1930s -- V. Postmodern Dance: From the Sixties to the Nineties -- 24. Judson Rides Again! -- 25. Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater -- 26. Vital Signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in Perspective -- 27. Meredith Monk and the Making of Chacon: Notes from a Journal -- 28. Dancing on the Edge -- 29. "Drive," She Said: The Dance of Molissa Fenley -- 30. Self-Rising Choreography -- 31. Transparent Living -- 32. No More Ordinary Bodies -- 33. Happily Ever After? The Postmodern Fairytale and the New Dance -- 34. Pointe of Departure -- 35. Classical Brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark.

36. Terpsichore in Sneakers, High Heels, Jazz Shoes, and On Pointe: Postmodern Dance Revisited -- 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the Music: Vicissitudes of Collaboration in American Postmodern Choreography -- 38. La Onda Próxima: Nueva Latina Dance -- 39. Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties (with Noël Carroll) -- 40. Dancing in Leaner Times -- 41. Going Solo -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.