Prologue: Negotiating a living past
Part One : Chasing the ephemeral : Reconstruction, re-creation, reinvention ; History in the making ; Theatrical parallels ; Battling Beckett
Part Two : Exploring the creative impulse ; Water Study : Performance history ; Identifying and exploring the evidence ; Interpreting from the present ; Catching the undertow: The dancing of Water Study
Passacaglia : Performance history ; A musical exploration of choreographic structure ; Centennial celebrations and beyond ; With My Red Fires : Performance history ; Contemporary perspective ; Evidence from the source ; Reshaping the matriarch ; Creative possibility
The shakers : Performance history ; Transmission strategies ; Crossing the line ; Navigating narrative
Epilogue: Dancing the past tomorrow.
