The idea for Apollo’s Angels grew out of conversations
with Jerrold Seigel and Richard Sennett, whose own
work and ideas convinced me that a cultural history of
dance was worth writing. I have learned from many
other historians along the way but have been especially
in􀉻uenced by the work of Paul Bénichou, Orlando Figes,
Marc Fumaroli, James H. Johnson, Carl Schorske,
Richard Wortman, and Frances Yates. In dance, I stand
on the shoulders of many scholars and writers, including
Joan Acocella, Arlene Croce, Robert Gottlieb, the late
Wendy Hilton, Deborah Jowitt, Julie Kavanagh,
Margaret M. McGowan, Richard Ralph, Nancy Reynolds,
Tim Scholl, Roland John Wiley, and Marian Hannah
Winter.