1.   It was their way of celebrating the belated arrival of the all male American dance troupe.

2.   American dance is short on such landmarks.

3.   American dance has no Manifest Destiny.

4.   American dance is obsessed with, or even tyrannized by, music.

5.   American dance studios, unlike foxholes, seem to be home to a fair share of nonbelievers.

6.   American dance, and ballet in particular, still seems wedded to formalism in ways the more overtly theatrical, Expressionistic Europeans have long abandoned.

7.   American dance and performance art will be popping up in new settings throughout Europe this spring, summer and fall.

8.   An unparalleled collection of archival and scholarly material on American black dance was also begun.

9.   And where other countries pride themselves on their homogeneity, American dance delights in diversity.

10.   Anyone surveying American dance may find surprises.