Debra Hickenlooper Sowell has a Ph. D in Performance Studies from New York University. She teaches at Brigham Young University and is an authority on dance among the Mormons. A formner member of the Cambridge Court Dancers, she has interests that extend to Renaissance court performances and to the romantic ballet in Italy. In 1992she received the John M. Ward Fellowship at the Harvard Theatre Collection. She has served on the board of directors of the Society of Dance History Scholars.
Introduction to the Series
List of Plates
Preface
Prologue
1. Family Beginnings
2. Early Training
3. Life on the Circuit
4. Wiliam in Portland
5. Broadway
Balanchine
and Ballet Caravan
6. Apollo and Mac: A Greek God and a Working Man's Hero
7. Wiliam and the San Francisco Opera Ballet
8. In the Shadow of War
9. Ballet Society and Wiliam's Dream Company
10. Regrouping
11. Wiliam Starts Anew in Salt Lake City
12. Lew Takes Over the San Francisco Ballet
13. The Ford Foundation Grants
14. San Francisco Ballet in the 1960s
15. Ballet West
16. Recognition and Transitions
17. The Final Years
Appendix A: Choreography by Wiliam Christensen
Appendix B: Choreography by Lew Christensen
Selected Bibliography
Index
