Dance Index

The journal Dance Index was founded by Lincoln Kirstein in 1942. Over the following seven years, 56 issues were published, presenting original scholarship on a wide range of dance subjects. In the spirit of its predecessor, the new Dance Index examines the multi-dimensional richness and diversity of the world of dance. Its intention is to surprise and excite a general audience with a new level of understanding and appreciation of the real and critical importance of dance in contemporary culture.

New Issue

Carmelita Maracci

by Ninotchka Bennahum

DANCE INDEX, Volume 15

No.2 Fall 2024

978-0-871-30-103-1

32 pages, 19 illustrations

$10

In this compelling account of a great dancer’s story, Ninotchka Bennahum meticulously assembles the pieces of Carmelita Maracci’s life, revealing why her contributions to modern dance are both obscured and essential. Bennahum writes, "Like the myth surrounding her identity, Maracci purposefully evaded classification. She chose not one dance genre but many, infusing the fields of neoclassical and modernist Spanish dance with a sense of her own being, her own authenticity – a unique point of view."

- Peter Kayafas