Dance Today

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Studies-Notes-Portraits

Andre Levinson, John Goodman

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Yale University Press
12 May 2026

Dance; Ballet; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature

The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (1887–1933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, historical erudition, and aesthetic theory. Dance Today, first published in 1929, is Levinson’s most important book. An eloquent chronicle of dance performance in Paris from 1923 to 1928, it covers not just ballet, the mainstay of his critical vision, but the full array of the city’s offerings, from variety show numbers, “orientalist” programs, and “interpretive” modern dance to presentations of the rich indigenous traditions of Spain, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia.

Levinson’s celebrated pages on Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, and La Argentina are here, together with his often-acerbic assessments of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Ballets Suédois, and German modern dance, then dominated by Rudolf Laban and Mary Wigman. This translation, the first unabridged edition in any language since 1929, includes a substantial introduction reframing Levinson’s French career, annotations that identify obscure works and clarify his many recondite allusions, and, as an appendix, the first English rendering of his pioneering essay on Mallarmé’s dance writing, which greatly influenced his critical thinking.

By: Andre Levinson
Translated by: John Goodman
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780300243840
ISBN 10: 0300243847
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

André Levinson emigrated from Petrograd, Russia, to Paris, where, writing in French, he became a prolific and controversial cultural critic, most notably of theatrical dance. John Goodman is a translator from the French whose catalogue includes books by Diderot, Le Corbusier, and the French art theorist Hubert Damisch.

Reviews for Dance Today: Studies-Notes-Portraits

“John Goodman has made a generous gift to all those seriously interested in dance history, French cultural history, or the broader history of modernism. André Levinson’s Dance Today is rich in learning and pleasure, and we are lucky to have this important book restored to us.”—Claudia Roth Pierpont, writer, The New Yorker