Introduction: the legacy begins

Pittsburgh

Santa Barbara

Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn: the Denishawn Dancers

Horst

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Kandinsky and Isadora Duncan

The Eastman School

From Mariarden to John Martin

Neighborhood Playhouse

Heretic

Dance Repertory Theatre and Lamentation

Introducing: Isamu Noguchi

League of Composers and The Rite of Spring in America

Northwest to Southwest

Know the land

Primitive Mysteries

"We will never understand one another"

From Ceremonials to Radio City Music Hall

The American rhythm

Airborne

Erick Hawkins and Lincoln Kirstein

Interlude: Chronicle

American Document

Every Soul Is a Circus

Deaths and Entrances: ten characters in search of a dance

Interlude: Appalachian Spring

Dark Meadow

Serpent Heart

The "break-up"

Horst revisited

Eye of Anguish

The choice

Coda.