Catherine Littlefield

This is the first biography of Catherine Littlefield, one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American ballet. As a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director, Littlefield built a ballet infrastructure in Philadelphia that was crucial to the proliferation of the art form in the United States.

Sharon Skeel is a freelance dance researcher with extensive credits in scholarly presentations, writing for journals, and curation.

Introduction
Chapter 1: "I had never had a dancing lesson in my life, but somehow, I knew I could train those other children, and I did." Caroline Doebele Littlefield
Chapter 2: "The whole family was so enthusiastic and so colorful and so interesting." Elizabeth Goldsmith
Chapter 3: "Mommie was the sparkplug and Catherine was the inspiration." Peggy Becker
Chapter 4: "What a lugubrious tale!" Fanya Levene
Chapter 5: "If you don't have money, you can't dance." Angelo Pinto
Chapter 6: "She was 9/10ths a performer and 1/10th a wife." Thomas Cannon
Chapter 7: "Here came these five beautiful Littlefield girls, good dancers all." Yvonne Patterson
Chapter 8: "There is going to be a permanent ballet company in Philadelphia." Catherine Littlefield
Chapter 9: "Now I know that it was really real." Ruth Sefarbi
Chapter 10: "We took 25 curtain calls and the stage looked like a florist shop." Leonard Ware
Chapter 11: "Her ballet, Barn Dance, was the first truly American balletic composition that we have ever seen." Walter Terry
Chapter 12: "An enormous macédoine of musical comedy, patriotism, and burlesque, spangled with American history-that is 'American Jubilee.'" Anonymous
Chapter 13: "For Broadway one must be clever and Catherine Littlefield is very clever." Anonymous
Chapter 14: "It is only 8 o'clock-the sun is streaming in and God is good." Catherine Littlefield
Epilogue