FOREWORD BY DAME MARGOT FONTEYN 9
TO THE READER 11
1．WHEN KINGS AND PRINCES DANCED 13
2．BALLET ENTERS THE THEATRE 24
3．THE RISE OF THE CHOREOGRAPHER 31
4．THE ROMANTIC BALLET 44
5．THE DECLINE OF BALLET IN THE WEST 58
6．THE AGE OF PETIPA 65
7．DIAGHILEV 76
8．PAVLOVA 98
9．THE BALLETS RUSSES OF THE NINETEEN-THIRTIES 102
10．CONTEMPORARY BALLET 110
A CHRONOLOGY 151
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 158
INDEX 161