xiv, 238 pp. "A kind of dancing that looks quaint to us now used to be the newest and freshest dancing in the world. It was called aesthetic or interpretive (or free-form or barefoot or "figure") dance; it emerged from the nineteenth-century romantic revival of the antique and it inaugurated a modern, twentieth-century way to see motion.... America had no theater-dance tradition. our aesthetic dancing was an original art, born of a strange blend of naivete and expertise. Several young women invented it; they were definitely trained in theatrical skills, also in some feminist attitudes--but absolutely untamed in the imagination. Nevertheless, the isolated imaginations of these girls conjured up a theatrical image so basic to us now that we forget its original impact on audiences: the solo human figure in space....The story of two generations of American dancers: how they were educated, what gave them courage, the insight, the foolhardiness to say they had found a new art form, and what gave them the drive to insist on its ultimate seriousness."
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