[Part] I : What is dance?
From Letters on dancing and ballets / Jean-Georges Noverre
Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen
Dance as a means of communication : from The dance / John Martin
Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis : from The modern Dance / J. Martin
Virtual powers ; The magic circle : from Feeling and form / Susanne K. Langer
The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / André Levinson
Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valéry
Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman
Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin
Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott.
[Part] II : The dance medium
Ballets / Stéphane Mallarmé
Le sacre du printemps / Jacques Rivière
Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin
Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode
Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen
Puppet theatre / Heinrich von Kleist.
[Part] III : Dance and the other arts
From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner
Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley
Music and action / Constant Lambert
The purisim of Étienne Decroux / Eric Bentley
from Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw
Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff.
[Part] IV : Genre and style
Ballet. Classic ballet : Aria of the aeriel / Lincoln Kirstein ; The classic ballet : from Tonight the ballet / Adrian Stokes ; The vertical : the fundamental principle of classical dance : from The book of exultation / A.K. Volinksy
Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine
Modern dance. The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan ; The sexual idiom : from Apology for dancing / Rayner Heppenstall ; Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katharine Gilbert ; My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman ; Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / Roger Copeland
Post-modern dance. A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Yvonne Rainer ; Running out of breath / Tom Johnson ; Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich
Style. Problems of definition : from Next week, Swan Lake / Selma Jeanne Cohen ; The swan in Zurich / R.P. Blackmur ; There is nothing "national" about ballet style / Anna Kisselgoff ; Classic and romantic ballet : from Ballet alphabet / Lincoln Kirstein.
[Part] V : Language, notation, and identity
Language and languages : from The principles of art / Robin G. Collingwood
Art as language / Joseph Margolis
Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall
The role of notation : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman
Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson.
[Part] VI : Dance criticism
Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / Théophile Gautier
The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / André Levinson
Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl van Vechten
Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto barocco) / Edwin Denby
Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt
Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce.
The art of dancing : from The dance of life / Havelock Ellis
The cosmic dance : from The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard
From Ritual to art : from Ancient art and ritual / Jane Harrison
The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon
Striptease / Roland Barthes
Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland
The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz
An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku
A possible grace : from Where she danced / Elizabeth Kendall.
