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Agnes de Mille
This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and lucrative Broadway works. The other three shows exemplify aspects of her legacy that have not been fully examined, including the impact of her ideas on some of the composers with whom she worked; her ability to incorporate a previously conceived work into the context of a Broadway show; and her trailblazing foray into the role of choreographer/director. Each chapter emphasizes de Mille's unique contrib...
Agnes de Mille
Despite her family's Hollywood connections, de Mille struggled for years to become a dancer. She found strength in collaboration, and her lifelike, expressive choreography set a new standard for Broadway and American ballet.
Agnes de Mille
The life and accomplishments of the choreographer, dancer, and author best known for the ballets she created on American themes and for the choreography of the musical "Oklahoma."
Blood Memory
Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer, & teacher, has been called the most important & influential American artist ever born. From her birth in 1894 to her death in 1991, she remained an uncompromising individualist who sought nothing less than to map the mysterious landscape of the human soul. This book is Graham's own account of her life & career. Contains portraits of artists & innovators she has worked with: Louise Brooks, Helen Keller, Aaron Copland, Isamu Noguchi, plus students: Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, & Madonna. More than 100 photos.
Reprieve
"In a lifetime of prodigious creative achievement, Agnes de Mille has always taken us places we have never been before. Her choreography for Oklahoma! helped change forever the American musical theater; her ballets Rodeo and Fall River Legend were instantly acclaimed as American classics. Her volumes of memoirs--Dance to the Piper; And Promenade Home; Speak to Me, Dance With Me; and Where the Wings Grow--have given wonderful perspectives on the life of an artist; The Book of the Dance and To a Young Dancer have brilliantly illuminated the art of the dance. Now in REPRIEVE Agnes de Mille shares with us the story of a great personal tragedy and moving triumph. On May 15, 1975, one hour before ...
Making Broadway Dance
"Musical theatre dance is an ever-changing, evolving dance form, egalitarian in its embrace of any and all dance genres. It is a living, transforming art developed by exceptional dance artists and requiring dramaturgical understanding, character analysis, knowledge of history, art, design and most importantly an extensive knowledge of dance both intellectual and embodied. Its ghettoization within criticism and scholarship as a throw-away dance form, undeserving of analysis: derivative, cliché ridden, titillating and predictable, the ugly stepsister of both theatre and dance, belies and ignores the historic role it has had in musicals as an expressive form equal to book, music and lyric. The...
Lizzie Borden: a Dance of Death
An account of Agnes De Mille's creation of Fall River Legend, a theatrical depiction of the infamous Lizzie Borden murders, and her struggle to bring the work to the stage.
Agnes de Mille
- Extraordinary Women explores the contributions of women in the science and arts, whose paths allowed them to break gender barriers - Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia - Presents inspiring portraits of achievement
Dance to the Piper
She moved to the music that ruled her life both onstage and off. He dealt with the world with ruthless expertise. Music was his business and he was all business. That is, until she lit up the stage. The attraction was instant and impossible. Because he ruled his empire from glass towers high above the vibrancy of her world, and coming to close to hers was risky business. But she was a woman who dared to dream, and she had dreams big enough for them both.
Leaps in the Dark
An anthology that includes excerpts from eight of de Mille's ten books, portions of the unpublished monograph "Russian Journals," and the entirety of her review of the London première of Balanchine's Prodigal Son
