Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword

CHAPTER ONE: Choreographer in His Element
CHAPTER TWO: Childhood in Russia
CHAPTER THREE: Monkey-A Student
CHAPTER FOUR: First Choreography
CHAPTER FIVE: Ballet Master to Diaghilev
CHAPTER SIX: Apollo and Prodigal Son
CHAPTER SEVEN: Rootless Years
CHAPTER EIGHT: But First a School
CHAPTER NINE: An Ace Job on the Terp Angle
CHAPTER TEN : Second Beginnings
CHAPTER ELEVEN: God Creates, Woman Inspires, and
Man Assembles
The Making of Agon-A Photo
Essay
CHAPTER TWELVE: Come Back, Come Back, Come
Back
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Essential Tradition
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What's the Matter with Now?
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: At Seventy
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: An Appetite for Renewal
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Last Year
EPILOGUE: Choreographing the Future
Appendix
Photo Credits
Index

About the Author

Bernard Taper is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Reviews

"The most readable and reliable introduction to the sphinxlike Russian who inspired his own brand of balletomania from the Diaghilev era to the present day."--Marcia B. Siegel, "Washington Post Book World