Christian Science, 128

Clarke, Dr. Edward, 28–29

classic dance, 55

Coble, Harry, 105

Code, Grant, 112

Codman Family, 58

Cohen, Robert, 185

Colby, Gertrude, 51, 172

Cole, Jack, 165

Columbia University, 51

Cone School of Dancing, 129

Congregationalists, 2

Coolidge Family, 58

corps de ballet, 6–7, 102, 194

corset, 14, 23–24, 53, 56, 61, 92, 212

coryphées, 7, 194

creative days, 82, 142

cultural matinees, 40

Cunningham, Merce, 177, 181–186, 192

Currier, Guy, 77, 79, 209

Currier, Marie, 77–79

Curry, Anna Baright, 36

Curry, Samuel Silas, 36

Curry School of Expression, 36, 200, 203, 205

dan, 99, 214

Dana Sieveling School of the Dance, 86, 128–129

Dance: A Basic Educational Technique, 175

Dance and the Allied Arts, 114

Dance Circle, 180–188, 192

dance education, 69–70, 72, 75, 83, 87, 89, 96, 106, 114, 118, 131–132, 139, 160, 169, 174, 176–178, 191

dance group, 102–103

Dance Notation Bureau, 119

Dance Repertory Theater, 171

Dartmouth College, 103

debutante, 127, 189

decomposing exercises, 46

Delsarte, Francois, 8, 32, 34–36, 38–39, 42, 45, 47, 51, 54, 71, 73–74

law of correspondence, 33–34

law of trinity, 33–34

Delsarte, Gustave, 73

de Mille, Agnes, 170

de Pourtales, Berthe, 53

Denishawn House, 127–128, 219

Denishawn Schools, 75, 77, 79, 86, 176

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 153

Dress, 24

dress reform, 14, 21, 23–25, 28, 73–74

Duncan, Isadora, xv, 8, 49, 54–57, 59, 63, 71, 84, 87, 94, 122, 135, 138, 176, 190, 204, 221

Duncan, Lillian, 82

Dunn, Robert Ellis, 182–184

Duchenne du Boulogne, C. B., 92

dynamic breathing, 45

Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics, 43, 45–46

Eastern philosophy, 45, 53, 67

Eddy, Mary Baker, 128

Ellis Memorial Gymnasium, 181

elocution, 29, 36–38

Elssler, Fanny, 5

Emerson, Charles W., 37–38

Emerson College of Oratory, 38

Enders, Grace, 178, 230

Enebuske, Claes, 43

Erdman, Jean, 117

Etinge, Rose, 39