Introduction: Dance theory as a problem in dance history
Chapter 1. Dance theory to ca. 1300
Chapter 2. The Renaissance
Chapter 3. The seventeenth century
Chapter 4. The early Enlightenment: German and English dance theory, 1703-1721
Chapter 5. Dance theory from Feuillet to the Encyclopédie
Chapter 6. Divergent paths: Noverre
Chapter 7. The nineteenth century and Fin de siècle: Practice ascendent
Chapter 8. The twentieth century: Modernist theory
Chapter 9. Postmodern dance theory and anti-theory.