Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1. Meeting "Mr. B." -- 2. Eugene Loring's American School of Dance -- 3. Balanchine's Ballet of Los Angeles and The Danny Kaye Show -- 4. School of American Ballet (Part 1): My First Trip to New York -- 5. Back to Los Angeles: Sir Anton Dolin -- "Western Ballet" -- Maya Plisetskaya and the Bolshoi Ballet -- 6. Guatemala -- Variations for Four -- London -- PART II -- 7. School of American Ballet (Part 2): Choreography and Teachers Stanley Williams, Andre Eglevsky, and Pierre Vladimiroff -- 8. School of American Ballet (Part 3): New York City Ballet and Its Ballerinas -- 9. My First Balanchine Class and Entry into the New York City Ballet -- 10. New York City Ballet Corps -- Piano Lessons -- Paul and Suzanne -- 11. Balanchine at Work: Jewels -- My First NYC Reviews -- More Classes and the Kiss -- 12. Balanchine's Last Seminar on Teaching -- 13. My First Principal Role, Valse Fantaisie: The SAB Workshop Goes Public -- 14. More Solos and Peter Martins's Debut -- 15. Jacques d'Amboise and Edward Villella: Technique and Personality -- 16. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and That "Greek" Ballet -- 17. Age 20: My First Ballet for New York City Ballet -- 18. Teaching at SAB: Gelsey Kirkland as Student -- The Bolshoi Ballet in NYC no -- 19. Fantasies: Mr. B.'s Suit -- More Classes -- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- 20. Dances at a Gathering: The Return of Jerome Robbins -- 21. The 1969 Spring Gala Preview: Dances at a Gathering and Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs -- Suzanne Farrell Resigns! -- 22. Monte Carlo and Rubies -- 23. Teaching at SAB: Gelsey Kirkland's Rise -- Reveries, My Fourth Ballet for NYCB at 22 -- 24. Gelsey Kirkland and Maggie Black -- 25. Allegra Kent -- 26. "Coach" Balanchine -- 27. Balanchine's Tastes -- 28. Stars and Stripes and "Panache!" -- 29. The Goldberg Variations Rehearsals -- PAMTGG -- 30. Choreographing Elsewhere: San Francisco and Royal Winnipeg Ballets -- 31. Berlin: Irina Kolpakova and Yuri Soloviev and Perhaps My Own Company! -- 32. The 1972 Stravinsky Festival: Balanchine Triumphant! -- 33. The 1972 Soviet Tour: Kiev -- St. Petersburg -- Tbilisi -- Moscow -- 34. Back in New York: The Berlin Films -- PART III -- 35. The Formation of My Los Angeles Ballet ("Baby Steps") -- 36. The Paris Opera Ballet -- 37. Coppelia, Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the New York Philharmonic Promenades, and My Aborted Broadway Debut -- 38. The Los Angeles Ballet -- 39. A "Guest Artist" with the New York City Ballet -- PART IV -- 40. The End of My Company, the Death of Balanchine, and the End of an Era.