And Then Came Dance

And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky's life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.

Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Amherst College.

List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits
PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU
Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923)
1) Amoureuses and Druidesses
2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich)
3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius)
4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein)
5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others)
Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897)
The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898)
1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900)
2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901)
Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909)
PART TWO: BODIES IN MOTION
The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912)
The Young Generation (1912)
The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913)
The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913)
Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913)
A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913)
The Russian Dancer (1913)
The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913)
The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913)
The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913)
The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913)
Anna Pavlova (1914)
A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914)
Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915)
Kseniya Makletsova (1915)
Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915)
Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916)
The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916)
Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916)
Tamara Karsavina (1916)
Vera Karalli (1916)
Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917)
The Classical Dancer (1922)
Elsa Vill (1922)
Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922)
Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922)
The Animated Flower (1923)
Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923)
Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923)
Elena Liukom (1923)
Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923)
The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923)
On the Russian Ballet (1923)
The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924)