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Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments Overture
- PART I : INTERNATIONAL STIRRINGS
- 1. From Pavlovita to Première Danseuse
- 2. World Travelers: Chicago Allied Arts and Beyond
- 3. "Gone Modern": Skyscrapers, Sacks, and Sticks
- 4. A Surprising Partnership: Page/Kreutzberg
- PART II : BALLET AMERICANA
- 5. White She-Devil in an Otherwise Black-Cast: La Guiablesse
- 6. "Jungle Jazz": A Murder Trial in Ballet
- 7. "Ghosts of Harlem": A Blues Ballet
- 8. America's First Feminist Ballet: An American Pattern
- 9. Embodying "Lowlife" in High Art: Frankie and Johnny
- 10. Victory Garden: Danced Poems in the Time of War
- 11. Postwar Anomie: The Bells
- 12. Bible Stories Meet Music Hall: Billy Sunday
- PART III : COSMOPOLITAN CHOREOGRAPHIES
- 13. The Remaking of the Choreographer: Revenge and the European Market
- 14. A Woman's Will: The Merry Widow
- 15. The Woman Who Could Not Sleep
- 16. Grand Finale Key to Endnote Abbreviations Endnotes
- Index Poetry Credit Lines