Dance anecdotes : stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance /
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Towering figures
- Marie Taglioni
- Anna Pavlova
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Isadora Duncan
- Martha Graham
- Margot Fonteyn
- Sir Frederick Ashton
- George Balanchine
- Of steps and their authorship
- Music makes me
- The rehearsal room
- Coaches and teachers
- Hands and things that can fill them
- Balletomania and other thrills
- Inspiration
- Seductions attempted, surmised, and completed
- Critical lines
- Turning points
- From stage to page
- Fauna
- Scandals
- Touring
- The theaters
- Costumes, footgear, and hair do's and don'ts
- Make-up
- Conductors
- Dancing and related theatrical professions
- Dancing and the movies
- Injuries, maladies, misfortunes, and cures
- On partnering and partnerships
- A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
- Sets and stagecraft
- Big pictures.