Choreography invisible: the disappearing work of dance

List of illustrations

Series editor's Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1. Historicising Dance Works

Early dances and ballets

Action-ballet and ballet-pantomime

Modern(ist) dances and modern work-concepts

Post-modern works

Part 2. Creation

Works, actions and structures

Are dance works real?

Part 3. Repeatability

Dance identity

Drowning in 'Swan Lakes'

Part 4. Persistence

Changing dance works

Films, recordings, and screendance works

Part 5. Loss and Recuperation

The problem of lost works

Recuperating loss? Reconstruction, reenactment, and work-performance

Conclusion

Notes

References and Bibliography

Index.