No fixed points: dance in the twentieth century

1. New dance: America's pioneers (1900-1940) : Vaudeville and spectacle extravaganza ; Exercise and dress reform ; Fuller, Duncan, Denishawn

2. Experimentalism in ballet: Diaghilev, Fokine, and the Russian legacy (1900-1930s) : End of the Petipa era ; Diaghilev ; Fokine ; Nijinsky ; Massine, Nijinska, Balanchine ; Other Russians in the West ; Worldwide influence of later Ballets Russes

3. Modernism revealed: Ausdruckstanz, the dance of expression (1910-1945) : Laban ; Wigman ; Schlemmer and the Bauhaus ; Solo concert dancers ; Kreutzberg and Georgi ; Jooss ; Ausdruckstanz and National Socialism

4. Ballet comes to America (1900-1940s) : Early visitors ; Russians in America ; Ballet Russe tours ; Regionalism, Americana themes ; Unaffiliated Americans

5. America after Denishawn: the heroic age of modern dance (1920-1940s) : Modern dance defined ; Role of John Martin ; Graham, Humphrey, Weidman, Holm ; Political themes ; Bennington summer dance program

6. Ballet in Western Europe: the rise of national traditions (1900-1960s) : Expatriate Russians in the West ; Rambert, early Tudor, de Valois, Ashton and English Classicism, Fonteyn, early Cranko, early MacMillan, Festival Ballet ; Hegemony of the Paris Opéra, Lifar, de Cuevas, Kochno, Petit, Charrat ; Denmark's Bournonville legacy, Lander

7. A world apart: dance in Russia and the Soviet Union (1900-1960s) : Innovation in Moscow ; The Russian Revolution ; The experimental 1920s ; Socialist realism, the drambalet ; Limited thaw

8. Ballet in America comes of age (1935-1965) : Balanchine in America ; American Ballet Theatre ; American Ballet Russe ; New York City Ballet ; Ballets: U.S.A. ; Ford Foundation grants ; Early Joffrey

9. Modern dance: the second generation (1935-1980s) : Sokolow, Lang ; King, Shearer ; Limón ; Horton ; Dunham, Primus ; Ailey

10. Schism and transition: reinterpreting modern dance (1940s-2000) : Cunningham ; Hawkins ; Nikolais, Louis ; Taylor ; Waring

11. Beyond the boundaries: postmodernism (1960-1980) : Precursors ; Robert Dunn and the Judson Church ; New spaces ; Halprin, Rainer ; Paxton and contact improvisation ; Brown ; Monk ; Childs ; Early Tharp

12. Internationalism: the merging of the disciplines (1950-2000) : Merging before 1950 ; Modern dance comes to Europe ; Cullberg, Butler, Tetley ; Béjart ; van Manen, van Dantzig, Kylián ; Neumeier, Forsythe ; Rambert as a modern company, Alston ; Flindt ; American "internationalists" ; Arpino, Feld, Lubovich, Goh ; Prime Tharp ; Crossover ballets

13. Ballet rising (1960-1990s) : The ballet boom ; Government funding ; Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov ; The revival of full-evening classes ; Cranko, MacMillan ; The dominance of Balanchine

14. Ballet's high tide (1960s-2000) : New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre ; The Joffrey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Harkness, Les Ballets Trockadero ; Regional Ballet in America ; Canada ; Great Britain ; France ; Germany ; The Soviet Union and the new Russia ; Denmark, Switzerland, Spain

15. Late modernism: pluralism and the ascendancy of style (1960s-2000) : The global vision, "new postmodernism" ; Wilson, Pilobolus, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Garth Fagan, new physical dance, Mark Morris ; Canada ; Germany ; France ; Belgium ; Scandinavia ; London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Alston, British New Dance ; Butoh

16. Musical theater in America (1900-2000) : Minstrelsy, tap, chorus lines, operetta, ballroom ; Ziegfeld, Cohan, Miller, black musicals, Princess Theatre musicals ; The Golden Age, 1930-1980 ; Reemergence of tap ; Revival fever

17. Dance in the movies (1900-2000) : The silents ; The talkies ; Berkeley ; Astaire ; Balanchine ; The Golden Age of the Hollywood musical, 1942-1957 ; Broadway shows on film ; Decline of the studio system ; The backstage world of ballet.