Chapter 1: Introduction

• Overture
• Setting the Stage
• Public Performances
• The Dancer in the World
• Chapter Summaries

Chapter 2: A Dancing Tour of the World

• Overture
• Dancing to the Music of Time
• Moving Between Art and Ethnography
• The World in a Kaleidoscope
• Writing Dance Around the World

Chapter 3: Dancers on Tour

• Overture
• Ballets Russes
• Solo Dancers
• Dancing into Poetry: La Meri

Chapter 4: Looking at Spanish Dance

• Overture
• Encounters with Spanish Dance
• Eclecticism: Tórtola Valencia
• Regionalism: Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina’
• Vanguardism: Vicente Escudero

Chapter 5: Projections

• Overture
• “Everything I Do is a Dance”
• Chaplin the Foreigner
• International Chaplins

Chapter 6: Loose Threads

• Overture
• Dance and its Spaces
• Dance and Design
• Dance and Film
• Dance and Writing

Chapter 7: Coda