FOREWORD BY DAME MARGOT FONTEYN

TO THE READER

1．WHEN KINGS AND PRINCES DANCED

2．BALLET ENTERS THE THEATRE

3．THE RISE OF THE CHOREOGRAPHER

4．THE ROMANTIC BALLET

5．THE DECLINE OF BALLET IN THE WEST

6．THE AGE OF PETIPA

7．DIAGHILEV

8．PAVLOVA

9．THE BALLETS RUSSES OF THE NINETEEN-THIRTIES

10．CONTEMPORARY BALLET

A CHRONOLOGY

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

INDEX