"Prime Movers, Second Edition updates the original chapters and includes new material from the author's writings about Erick Hawkins, Judith Jamison, Garth Fagan, Trisha Brown, Laura Dean, Ulysses Dove, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Ralph Lemon, Mark Morris, and Bill T. Jones. The Second Edition also includes an updated Bibliography and a new Videography."--BOOK JACKET.

I. Loie Fuller: The Evangelist of Light -- II. Isadora Duncan: The Religion of the Foot -- III. Ruth St. Denis: Salvation Through Spectacle -- IV. Ted Shawn: Men Do Dance -- V. Doris Humphrey: The Eloquence -- VI. Martha Graham: Casta Diva -- VII. Merce Cunningham: Multiple Choice -- VIII. Nikolais, Ailey, Taylor: Three Specialists -- IX. Twyla Tharp: Advance From the 1960s.