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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.