Richard Holden Memoir Index

Book Cover	Introduction ~ Foreword
Chapter 1	Early Years ~ Growing Up In Poverty ~ My First Dance Lesson ~ Grammar School Days Loretta Young and “The Men In Her Life” ~ High School With Music Quincy Conservatory of Music~ Books that Can Change Lives Vaslav Nijinsky ~ Modelling For Artists ~ Boston’s Metropolitan Theater
Chapter 2	Ushering Choreography ~ Senia Russakoff ~ Dancing With A Russian Troupe Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ~ Christian Science ~ Arriving In New York City The Roxy Theater ~ Candy Standing ~ George Chaffee ~ Dancing With Chaffee’s Troupe Broadway Tryouts ~ Metropolitan Opera Ballet School The Metropolitan’s Tudor And Craske Regime ~ American Ballet Theater School Bronislava Nijinska ~ Supering At The Old Met ~ My First Steady Girl Friend The Common Glory~~First Professional Dancing Job
Chapter 3	St. Petersburg – Florida, Not Russia ~ I Join Actor’s Equity Working As An Office Temp ~ A Summer In Maine
Chapter 4	Meet Me In St. Louis ~ “The Muny” ~ Anthony Nelle ~ “Oklahoma” Patricia Bowman ~ My First Car ~ Teaching In St. Louis
Chapter 5	Return To New York ~ A Most Unusual Show ~ Elmira, New York Opening And Closing My Very Own Dance Studio ~ Camp Minnowbrook, Lake Placid
Chapter 6	All That Glitters Is Not Gold – All Who Wander Are Not Lost London, England ~ Andrew Hardy ~ I Join A British Ballet Company On Tour With Ballets Minerva ~ I Acquire A Mentor ~ My First Trip To Russia A Short Changed Othello ~ On The Isle Of Wight
Chapter 7	Rudolph And Joan Benesh ~ Dance Notation Comes Into Its Own The Institute Of Choreology ~ Dame Alicia Markova ~ A Metropolitan Opera Contract The New Metropolitan Opera In Lincoln Center ~ Opening Production Antony And Cleopatra ~ Other Opera Ballets
Chapter 8	Everyone Will Be Famous For 15 Minutes – Andy Warhol I Become Official Choreologist Of Lincoln Center My Method Of Creating A Benesh Notation Score Backstage At The New Met - Inside the Metropolitan Opera House
Chapter 9	Tucson, Arizona – My First Visit ~ “Nutcracker” ~ Other Ballets ~ “Alice” On TV “Alice” Wins National Broadcast Media Award Agnes de Mille And Her “Rodeo” ~ “Round~Up” ~ “Coppelia” I Stage Opera “Pagliacci” ~ My First “Brooms Of Mexico” Ballet
Chapter 10	London Revisited ~ Stratford ~ Upon – Avon The Rosicrucian Order ~ A Ship To Leningrad
Chapter 11	Leningrad, USSR ~ I Meet A Shady Character More Shady Characters ~ Rebekah Harkness Why was it that I so often made such bad decisions?
Chapter 12	Harkness House ~ I Become Assistant to Igor Moiseyev The Murder Of Maria Nevelska ~ Tucson Civic Ballet Opens Music Hall
Chapter 13	Andre Eglevsky ~ Eglevsky’s “Coppelia” ~ Death of Andre Eglevsky
Chapter 14	Rebekah Harkness Builds Her Own Theater ~ Harkness Ballet Is Finished My Return To Harkness House ~ Death Of Rebekah Harkness
Chapter 15	Another “Nutcracker”
Chapter 16	“Round~Up” In Kansas City ~ Choreologist At New York City Ballet Robert Joffrey And Ashton’s “The Dream” ~ Sir John Hart ~ My First ‘Firebird”
Chapter 17	My First “Cinderella” and “La Bayadere” ~ “The Humpbacked Horse” Teacher’s Conventions ~ Sir Frederic Ashton’s “Monotones “
Chapter 18	Tucson Civic Ballet Comes To An End ~ Transitions Dance Notation Bureau and Labanotation ~ John Neumeier And American Ballet Theater
Chapter 19	Southgate Towers ~ A Spiritual Experience In Mazatlan, Mexico ~ Working In Mexico City
Chapter 20	American Ballet Theater ~ I Become Assistant To Misha Baryshnikov Baryshnikov’s “Nutcracker” ~ Assisting Sir Robert Helpmann Glen Tetley’s “Sacre du Primtemps” ~ Misha’s ‘Nutcracker’ A Success American Ballet Theater’s Star Power ~ ABT’s “Firebird” And “Petrushka” Antony Tudor ~ Staging Tudor’s “Sunflowers” For The Met American Ballet Theater In Turmoil
Chapter 21	Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ~ I Audition For Ballet Russe Michel Katcharoff And His Death
Chapter 22	Butler University ~ A Summer Intensive in Canada ~ Character Dance National Ballet of Canada ~ Jordan College Of Fine Arts ~ My Colleagues Ballet Russe Sets And Costumes ~ Classes ~ “Graduation Ball” in Memphis “La Bayadere” ~ “La Sylphide” At Butler ~ Technical Aspects Of “La Sylphide” My Slip Up ~ A Very Different “Alice In Wonderland” ~ “Paquita” In Salt Lake City “Cinderella” My Big Finale ~ Butler's "Cinderella” Is Brilliant A Classic Car, But I Didn’t Know It ~ “Papa” Beriosov Advises
Chapter 23	The Bronx ~ Back At Harkness House ~ “La Fille mal gardee” For Alex Ramov Review Of "La Fille Mal Gardée" ~ “Graduation Ball” In Westchester “Le Carnaval” For New York Theater Ballet ~ My “Firebird” And New York Times Review A New Jersey “Nutcracker” That Lasted 18 Years. “Le Villi” Ballet~Opera In Central Park ~ “A Colonial Nutcracker” My Book On Character Dance ~ Death Of George Chaffee “Two Pigeons” And New York Times Review ~ Alexander Bennet And “La Sylphide” “Humpbacked Horse” Makes Another Appearance New York Times Review of My “Humpbacked Horse” ~ Farewell To New York City
Chapter 24	Tucson, Arizona Becomes My New Home ~ Sonya ~ London Revisited Arizona Balalaika Orchestra ~ Ballet Arts Studio ~ More Choreography Beginnings Of Kalinka Russian Dancers ~ “Le Carnaval” For Ballet Arts Ensemble “Spectre de la Rose” for Ballet Arts Ensemble ~ Arizona Opera Choreography I Become A Writer For The Tucson Weekly ~ My New House ~ George Zoritch
Chapter 25	Dance In Tucson ~ Tucson Regional Ballet ~ “A Southwest Nutcracker” Firebird in Tucson ~ “Upstairs Downstairs” ~ Dance Southwest “Petrushka” ~ “Petrushka" In Tucson ~ A Post Script on “Petrushka”
Chapter 26	“Chakra” ~ Death Of Charles Menzies ~ My Brief Film Career My Dance With The Star In “Tombstome” ~ “Pontiac Moon” and Ted Danson I Choreograph TV’s “Legend” ~ Two Pigeons Revival ~ Rodney Gustavson “Upstairs Downstairs” For State Street Ballet Of Santa Barbara “Khatchaturiana” ~ First Visit To Republic Of China
Chapter 27	The Story Of Sonya ~ Sonya’s Death ~ Epilogue
Appendix A	Dance Works Choreographed by Richard Holden
Appendix B	Published Writings
Appendix C	Article in Moscow's Pravda Newspaper