Title: Ballet, bias and belief :
Authors: Kirstein, Lincoln,; Reynolds, Nancy,; Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of the Ballets Russes (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Date: 1983
Publisher: Dance Horizons,
Physical description: xviii, 458 p. : ill. (3 folded articles) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Sour gripes : a gracious post-script / Lincoln Kirstein -- Lincoln Kirstein : apologist for the dance / Nancy Reynolds -- Part I. Seventeen articles (1930-1978) with introductory comments by Nancy Reynolds. The Diaghilev period (1930) ; Homage to Michel Fokine (1933) ; Working with Stravinsky (1937) ; Prejudice purely (1934) ; Stardom : Slav and native (1938) ; Martha Graham (1937) ; Our ballet and our audience (1938) ; Transcontinental caravan (1939) ; Martha Graham at Bennington (1938) ; About Billy the Kid (1938) ; The American ballet in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and the West Coast (1941), Alec : or the future of choreography (19530 ; Foreword to Gagaku (1959) ; Balanchine's fourth dimension (1972) ; The policy of a ballet company (1975) ; Classic ballet : aria of the aerial (1976) ; The performing arts and our egregious elite (1978) -- Pt. II. Three pamphlets collected with a new forward (1967). Blast at ballet (1937) ; Ballet alphabet (1939) ; What ballet is about (1959).
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ballet.; Dance.