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)