This book is an informal account of how ballet came to America, how it evolved and became known, what the Ford Foundation did to help develop the professional resources of performance and training in ballet, and what it later did in modern dance. [p. 6].

CONTENTS
Introduction.
Background.
The program.
American ballet today.
Modern dance.
Postlude.
Interviews with W. McNeil Lowry, Cynthia Gregory, Sheila Rozann, George Balanchine, Lisa Jackson, Suzanne Farrell.
Ford Foundation assistance to American dance 1959-1983 [list of grants].

This book is an informal account of how ballet came to America, how it evolved and became known, what the Ford Foundation did to help develop the professional resources of performance and training in ballet, and what it later did in modern dance. [p. 6].