Confronting Oblivion: Keynote Address and Lecture Demonstration on Reconstructing Ballets
p. 1
Reconstructing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity: The Ballet Skating Rink
p. 21
Diaghilev's 'Soviet Ballet': Reconstructing Jakulov's Set Design for Le Pas d'acier (1927)
p. 31
After the Event: Reconstructing Ashton's 'Past'
p. 41
Inside Artistry: The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives
p. 52
Is Authenticity to be Had?
p. 65
Issues of Authenticity and Identity in the Restaging of Paul Taylor's Airs
p. 72
Freeze Frame or Fast Forward? Notating Ashton's La Fille mal gardee using video as a primary source
p. 79
The Preservation of the Ballets of Kurt Jooss
p. 89
Reconstruction: Living or Dead? Authentic or Phony?
p. 97
The Staging of Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia: A Director's Perspective
p. 105
Interpreting or Remaking the Text? A Cross-Arts Panel
p. 113
Shakespeare: Preservation and/or Reinvention?
p. 120
Reproducing the Dance: In Search of the Aura?
p. 125
More than an Expert Scribe? The Human Dimension
p. 132
The Present Past: Towards an Archaeology of Dance
p. 141
Bringing the Past to the Present: An Experiment in Reviving Eighteenth-Century Theatre Dances
p. 148
Imitating the Passions: Reconstructing the Meanings within the Passagalia of Venus and Adonis
p. 154
Pierre Lacotte and the Romantic Ballet: An Account of the Work of the French Choreographer and Director
p. 166
'Bien ecoute ...' A Study of Nineteenth-Century Ballet Mime
p. 178
A la recherche des pas perdus: In search of lost steps
p. 185
Identity and the Open Work
p. 205
Revisiting History in Postmodernism: Resurrecting Giselle ... again ... and again!
p. 216
Postmodern Play with Historic Narratives in the Reconstruction of Lea Anderson's Flesh and Blood (1989)
p. 227
Deborah MacMillan interviewed by Christopher Cook and Monica Mason's demonstration of the solo for the Chosen One from MacMillan's The Rite of Spring (1962)
p. 241
Matthew Bourne interviewed by David Leonard
p. 247
Biographies
p. 250
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