Dying Swan and, Chapter 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1
emigration to West of, Chapter 8.1
English music hall and, Chapter 10.1
political protest and, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Pavlovna, Ekaterina, Chapter 7.1
PBS television, Chapter 11.1
Pécour, Guillaume-Louis, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, Chapter 6.1
Perrault, Charles, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
The Sleeping Beauty, Chapter 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Perrin, Pierre, Chapter 1.1
Perrot, Jules, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, epl.1
background of, Chapter 4.1
Degas paintings of, Chapter 4.1
Petipa and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
works: Eoline, ou la Dryade, Chapter 7.1
Esmeralda, Chapter 7.1
Giselle, Chapter 4.1, 4.2
Pétain, Philippe, Chapter 10.1
Peter I (the Great), ruler of Russia, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1
Peterhof Palace, Chapter 7.1
Petipa, Lucien, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Petipa, Marius, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12.1
background and training of, Chapter 7.1
Balanchine homage to, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Bolshoi restaging of, Chapter 9.1
British ballet and, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
death of, Chapter 7.1
Imperial Theaters and, Chapter 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 12.2
Ivanov and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
legacy of, Chapter 7.1, epl.1
Romantic tradition and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Sergeyev notation of, Chapter 10.1
Soviet ideological revisions of, Chapter 8.1, 9.1
Tchaikovsky and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
works: La Bayadère, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
“The Kingdom of the Shades,” Chapter 7.1
La Corsaire, Chapter 7.1
Don Quixote, Chapter 7.1
Esmeralda, Chapter 7.1, 8.1
Giselle, Chapter 4.1, 7.1, 10.1
Les Millions d’Arlequin, Chapter 12.1
Night and Day, Chapter 7.1
The Nutcracker, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 12.1
Paquita, Chapter 7.1
The Pharaoh’s Daughter, Chapter 7.1
Raymonda, Chapter 7.1, 8.1, 12.1
The Sleeping Beauty, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 12.1
Swan Lake, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1, 12.1
Petit, Mademoiselle, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
Petit, Roland, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Carmen, Chapter 10.1
Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, Chapter 10.1
Petrassi, Goffredo, Chapter 10.1
Petrograd. See St. Petersburg
Picasso, Pablo, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Parade sets and costumes, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Pinter, Harold, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Piotrovsky, Adrian, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
pirouettes, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Blasis view of, Chapter 6.1
Italian school and, Chapter 8.1
Nijinsky and, Chapter 8.1
Plato, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2
Playford, John, Chapter 2.1
Pleasant, Richard, Chapter 11.1
Pléiade, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.1
Plisetskaya, Maya, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 11.1
pointe work, Chapter 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
origins of, Chapter 4.1
Taglioni and, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Poiret, Paul, Chapter 8.1
Poirot, Auguste, Chapter 7.1
polonaise, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Pompadour, Madame de, Chapter 2.1
Pompeii excavation, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Pope, Alexander, Chapter 2.1, 4.1
postmodernism, Chapter 11.1, 12.1, epl.1
Poulenc, Francis, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Pound, Ezra, Chapter itr.1, 10.1, 11.1
Poussin, Nicolas, Chapter 1.1
Powell, Michael, Chapter 10.1
précieuses (literary circles), Chapter 1.1
Preobrazhenskaya, Olga, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Pressburger, Emeric, Chapter 10.1
Prévert, Jacques, Les Enfants de Paradis, Chapter 10.1
Prévost, Françoise, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
Price, Ellen, Chapter 5.1
Price, Juliette, Chapter 5.1
Prokofiev, Sergei, Chapter 8.1, 9.1, 12.1
Cinderella, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Love of Three Oranges, Chapter 9.1
Romeo and Juliet, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
The Stone Flower, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
Proust, Marcel, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Prussia, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Prynne, William, Chapter 2.1
Puccini, Giacomo, Chapter 6.1
Pugni, Cesare, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Pure, Michel de, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Pushkin, Alexander (ballet master), Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Pushkin, Alexander (poet), Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 12.1
Diaghilev’s reverence for, Chapter 8.1
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Chapter 1.1, 3.1
Quinault, Philippe, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Alceste, Chapter 1.1
Racine, Jean, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Britannicus, Chapter 2.1
Radio Free Europe, Chapter 11.1
Radlov, Sergei, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Ramaccini, Annunciata, Chapter 6.1, 6.2
Rambert, Marie, Chapter 8.1, 10.1, 12.1
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Rameau, Pierre, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
Raphael, Chapter 5.1, 6.1
Rasputin, Chapter 8.1
Ravel, Maurice, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 12.2
La Valse, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Ravel Festival, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
realism, Chapter 4.1, 9.1
Récamier, Juliette, Chapter 4.1, 4.2
Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble, Chapter 9.1
Red Channels report, Chapter 12.1
Red Shoes, The (film), Chapter 10.1, 11.1
Reich, Steve, Chapter 12.1
Reisinger, Julius, Chapter 7.1
Renaissance, Chapter itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, epl.1
Renan, Ernest, Chapter 4.1
Renoir, Jean, Chapter 4.1
Repin, Ilya, Chapter 7.1
The Volga Barge Haulers, Chapter 7.1
Revolution of 1830, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1
Revolutions of 1820–21, Chapter 6.1, 7.1
Revolutions of 1848, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1
Rich, John, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Richelieu, Cardinal de, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Riesman, David, Chapter 12.1
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, Chapter 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Risorgimento, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
Rite of Spring. See Sacre du Printemps, Le
Ritorni, Carlo, Chapter 6.1
Rivière, Jacques, Chapter 8.1
Robbins, Jerome, Chapter 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
background and training of, Chapter 12.1
Ballet Theatre and, Chapter 11.1, 12.1
Broadway and, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
death of, Chapter 12.1, epl.1
House Un-American Activities Committee and, Chapter 12.1
influence on American ballet of, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
legacy of, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
New York City Ballet and, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
preservation of works of, Chapter epl.1
works: Afternoon of a Faun, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
The Age of Anxiety, Chapter 12.1
Brahms/Handel, Chapter 12.1
Brandenburg, Chapter 12.1
The Cage, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Dances at a Gathering, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7
Eight Lines, Chapter 12.1
Facsimile, Chapter 12.1
Fancy Free, Chapter 9.1, 12.1
Fiddler on the Roof, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Glass Pieces, Chapter 12.1
The Guests, Chapter 12.1
I’m Old-Fashioned, Chapter 12.1
Interplay, Chapter 9.1
In the Night, Chapter 12.1
Les Noces, Chapter 12.1
On the Town, Chapter 11.1, 12.1
Opus 19/The Dreamer, Chapter 12.1
Other Dances, Chapter 12.1
The Poppa Piece, Chapter 12.1
A Suite of Dances, Chapter 12.1
Watermill, Chapter 12.1
West Side Story, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
“Cool,” Chapter 12.1
Robbins, Sonia, Chapter 12.1
Robert le Diable, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Danish production, Chapter 5.1
Robespierre, Maximilien, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Rockefeller, Nelson, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Rodin, Auguste, Chapter 8.1
Danseur, dit Nijinsky, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Rodolphe, Jean-Joseph, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Roerich, Nikolai
The Call of the Sun, Chapter 8.1
Le Sacre du Printemps, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Romantic ballet, Chapter itr.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
ballerinas and, Chapter 3.1, 4.1
Ballets Russes and, Chapter 4.1, 8.1
Blasis Italian school vs., Chapter 6.1, 6.2
Bournonville and, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 10.1, 10.2
canonical works of, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Degas paintings of, Chapter 4.1
demise of, Chapter 4.1, 4.2
as first modern ballet, Chapter 4.1
Italy and, Chapter 6.1
Kirstein’s dislike of, Chapter 11.1
literary scenarios for, Chapter 6.1
Petipa and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Russian ballet and, Chapter 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
tropes of, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1
Ulanova and, Chapter 9.1
waltz and, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Rome, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 10.1
Romeo and Juliet, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Bolshoi tours of, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2
Cranko version, Chapter 10.1
Kirov version, Chapter 9.1
MacMillan version, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Soviet significance of, Chapter 9.1
Ronsard, Pierre, Chapter 1.1
Rosière, La (1783), Chapter 3.1, 3.2
Rosière républicaine, La (1794), Chapter 3.1
Rossi, Ernesto, Chapter 6.1
Rossini, Gioachino, Chapter 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1
Royal Ballet, Chapter 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, epl.1, epl.2
Bolshoi exchange tours with, Chapter 9.1, 10.1
Bournonville legacy and, Chapter 5.1
decline of, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Fonteyn’s move from, Chapter 10.1
forerunners of, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
internationalization of, Chapter epl.1
preservation of classics and, Chapter epl.1, epl.2
prestige of, Chapter 10.1
See also Ashton, Frederick
Royal Ballet Touring Company, Chapter 10.1
Royal Danish Ballet
dancers’ pay/pensions and, Chapter 5.1
distinctive style/technique of, Chapter itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1
ideals of, Chapter 5.1
new opera house for, Chapter epl.1
Romanticism and, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 10.1, 10.2
Russian ballet and, Chapter 7.1
sylphides portrayal by, Chapter itr.1, 5.1
training method of, Chapter 5.1, 10.1
twentieth-century status of, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
See also Bournonville, August
Royal Danish Ballet School, Chapter 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Royal Opera House. See Covent Garden
Royal Swedish Ballet, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Rusiaia, Jia (pseud.), Chapter 10.1
Ruskin, John, Chapter 6.1
Russian ballet, Chapter 7.1
Alexander III reforms and, Chapter 7.1
Balanchine evocation of, Chapter 12.1
Ballets Russes and, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Bolshevik takeover and, Chapter 8.1
Bournonville view of, Chapter 5.1
British admirers of, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
as classical ballet, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 8.1
conservatism and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
contemporary retrospective productions of, Chapter epl.1
current status of, Chapter epl.1
dancers’ salaries and, Chapter 7.1
discipline of, Chapter 10.1
East-West split in, Chapter 8.1
émigrés’ transmission of culture of (see Russian émigrés)
first significant Russian-born choreographer, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
First World War and, Chapter 8.1
folk themes and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
foreign dancers and, Chapter 5.1, 6.1
Imperial support for, Chapter 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1
influence in West of, Chapter 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Italian performers and, Chapter 6.1, 7.1
military culture and, Chapter 7.1
modernism and, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
new generation of, Chapter 7.1, 8.1
Petipa and, Chapter 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
political attacks on, Chapter 7.1
popular conception of, Chapter itr.1
post–Soviet reclamation of, Chapter epl.1
Romanticism and (see under Romantic ballet)
Slavic past and, Chapter 8.1
See also Soviet ballet
Russian court. See Imperial Court
Russian émigrés, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
American ballet and, Chapter 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
as ballet teachers, Chapter itr.1, itr.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
British ballet and, Chapter 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
First World War and, Chapter 8.1
French ballet and, Chapter 10.1
Russian Opera, Chapter 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Russian Orthodox Church, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Balanchine and, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
Les Noces and, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Old Believers and, Chapter 7.1, 8.1
Stravinsky and, Chapter 12.1
theatrical spectacle and, Chapter 7.1
Russian Revolution (1917), Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, epl.1
Russian Tea Room (N.Y.C.), Chapter 12.1
Sacre du Printemps, Le (Rite of Spring), Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
artistic problems with, Chapter 8.1
Balanchine and, Chapter 8.1, 12.1
Béjart version, Chapter 10.1
first-night riots and, Chapter 8.1, 12.1
MacMillan version, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Les Noces and, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
reconstruction of, Chapter epl.1
significance of, Chapter 8.1
Sadler’s Wells Ballet (formerly Vic-Wells), Chapter 10.1
American tour of, Chapter 10.1, 12.1
founding of, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
See also Royal Ballet
Sadler’s Wells Theater, Chapter 10.1
Saint, Clara, Chapter 9.1
St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
St. Denis, Ruth, Chapter 8.1
Sainte-Beuve, Charles, Chapter
4.1
Saint-Évremond, Charles de, Chapter 1.1
Saint-Georges, Vernoy de, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Saint-Léon, Arthur, Chapter 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2
The Golden Fish, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
The Little Hump-backed Horse, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Saint-Léon, Michel (father), Chapter 3.1
St. Petersburg, Chapter itr.1, 7.1, 9.1
cultural shift to Moscow from, Chapter 9.1
Decembrist revolt and, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Diaghilev circle in, Chapter 8.1
Duncan performance in, Chapter 8.1
Excelsior run in, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
founding of, Chapter 7.1
protests and strikes in, Chapter 8.1
Swan Lake premiere in, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Taglioni performances in, Chapter 7.1
Tchaikovsky memorial concert in, Chapter 7.1
three state theaters in, Chapter 7.1
See also Maryinsky/Kirov
Saint-Saëns, Camille, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Saint-Simon, duc de, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1
Sallé, Marie, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2
Bigottini as successor to, Chapter 3.1
Noverre friendship with, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
propriety of, Chapter 2.1
Saltykov-Shchedrin, M. E., Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Salvandy, comte de, Chapter 12.1
Salvini, Tommaso, Chapter 6.1
San Carlo, Chapter 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Sand, George, Chapter 4.1
Sanquirico, Alessandro, Chapter 6.1
sans-culottes, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Santlow, Hester, Chapter 2.1
Satie, Erik, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Savrenskaya, Mariya, Chapter 7.1
Schleswig-Holstein, Chapter 5.1, 5.2
Schneitzhoeffer, Jean, Chapter 4.1
Schoenberg, Arnold, Chapter 10.1, 12.1, 12.2
Verklärte Nacht, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
School of American Ballet, Chapter itr.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, epl.1
Balanchine/Kirstein founding of, Chapter 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
ballet popularization and, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Russian influence at, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Schuman, William, Chapter 12.1
Schumann, Robert, Chapter 12.1
Scialja, Tori, Chapter 10.1
science, Chapter 1.1, 4.1, 8.1
Scotland, Chapter 4.1, 5.1
Scott, Sir Walter, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Lucia di Lammermoor, Chapter 4.1
Scriabin, Alexander, Chapter 8.1
Scribe, Eugene, Chapter 4.1, 7.1
Second World War
American ballet and, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Britain and, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
Danish ballet and, Chapter 10.1
Fonteyn’s performances and, Chapter 10.1
French occupation and, Chapter 10.1
Nazi atrocities and, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Soviet Union and, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
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