Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dance Theory as a Problem in Dance History

Chapter 1. Dance Theory to ca. 1300
1.1. Plato
1.2. Aristotle
1.3. Plutarch
1.4. Lucian of Samosata
1.5. Johannes de Grocheio

Chapter 2. The Renaissance
2.1. Domenico da Piacenza
2.2. Antonio Cornazano
2.3. Guglielmo Ebreo
2.4. Thoinot Arbeau
2.5. Fabritio Caroso

Chapter 3. The Seventeenth Century
3.1. François De Lauze
3.2. Claude-François Menestrier

Chapter 4. The Early Enlightenment: German and English Dance Theory, 1703-1721
4.1. Samuel Rudolph Behr
4.2. Johann Pasch
4.3. Gottfried Taubert
4.4. John Weaver

Chapter 5. Dance Theory from Feuillet to the Encyclopédie
5.1. Giambatista Dufort
5.2. Bartholome Ferriol y Boxeraus
5.3 Pierre-Alexandre Hardouin
5.4. Louis de Cahusac

Chapter 6. Divergent Paths: Noverre
6.1. Jean-Georges Noverre
6.2. Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
6.3. Johann George Sulzer
6.4. Gennaro Magri
6.5. Charles Compan

Chapter 7. The Nineteenth Century and Fin de siècle: Practice Ascendent
7.1. Jean-Étienne Despréaux
7.2. Carlo Blasis
7.3. Arthur St. Léon
7.4. G. Léopold Adice
7.5. Friedrich Albert Zorn
7.6. Eugène Giraudet
7.7. Edmond Bourgeois

Chapter 8. The Twentieth Century: Modernist Theory
8.1. Rudolf von Laban
8.2. Margaret N. H'Doubler
8.3. African American Dance Theory I
8.3a. Zora Neale Hurston, and 8.3b. Katherine Dunham
8.3c. Robert Farris Thompson
8.3d. Brenda Dixon Gottschild
8.4. Martha Graham
8.5a. Alwin Nikolais, and 8.5b. Murray Louis
8.6a. Flavia Pappacena, and 8.6b. Susanne Franco

Chapter 9. Postmodern Dance Theory and Anti-Theory
9.1a. Merce Cunningham, and 9.1b,c. Yvonne Rainer
9.2. Susan Leigh Foster
9.3. André Lepecki and Jenn Joy
9.4. African American Dance Theory II
9.4a. Thomas F. DeFrantz, and 9.4b. Anita Gonzalez
9.4c. Halifu Osumare
9.4d. Nadine George-Graves
9.4e. Philipa Rothfield and Thomas F. DeFrantz
9.5a. Susan Leigh Foster, and 9.5b. P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios)
9.6a. Kent De Spain, and 9.6b. Janet Lansdale
9.7. Gabriele Brandstetter

Appendix: Table of Dance Periodization
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Tilden Russell is Professor Emeritus of Music at Southern Connecticut State University. The Compleat Dancing Master (2012), his two-volume translation with commentary of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, received the Society of Dance History Scholars' de la Torre Bueno Prize Special Citation. He further explores early eighteenth-century German dance theory in Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance: The
German-French Connection (2017), and is co-author, with Dominique Bourassa, of The Menuet de la cour (2007). He has written and lectured on Taubert and his contemporaries, dance theory, the minuet and scherzo, and other topics in dance and
music history, with articles published in Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, The Journal of Musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, Acta musicologica, Imago musicae, Beethoven Forum, The New Grove 2nd edition, and elsewhere.

Reviews

"Tilden Russell provides a fascinating and all-encompassing look at dance theory from the Greeks to the early 21st century through primary source readings, and brings the subject of dance history to vivid life. Dance Theory should be used as the basis of every university dance history course from here on out!" -- Thomas Baird, The Juilliard School and Purchase College, SUNY
"Tilden Russell's book is for dance theory what Oliver Strunk's Source Readings was for music history, in 1950: the first comprehensive compilation of primary-source writings in its field in English. With his commentary on these judiciously selected and (where necessary) expertly translated texts, Russell traces the serpentine, and sometimes discontinuous, path of important thinking on dance over the centuries, going a long way toward providing the
overarching history of dance theory that we still lack." -- Bruce Alan Brown, University of Southern California