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Leaps in the dark: art and the world
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University Press of Florida
Publication Date
c2011
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English
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From the Book
Preface
Portraits and Self-Portraits
Takes Her Own Measure: (Excerpt from Speak to Me, Dance with Me) / Agnes de Mille
Choice of Vocation: (Excerpt from New York, Dance to the Piper)
Uncle Ce / Cecil B. De Mille
People Mover: (Excerpt from The Brothers, Dance to the Piper)
The Bull in the China Shoppe: (Excerpts from Speak to Me, Dance with Me)
Uncle Ce Weighs In: (Excerpt from Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. De Mille / Scott Eyman
Anna Pavlova
Pavlova: (Dance to the Piper)
The Swan: Dance to the Piper
(Excerpts from The Kosloff School, Dance to the Piper) / Theodore Kosloff
(Excerpt from The Profession, Dance to the Piper) / Adolph Bolm / Louis Horst
(Excerpt from The Profession, Dance to the Piper) / La Argentina
Martha Graham, Dance to the Piper / Martha Graham
(Excerpt from Speak to Me, Dance with Me / Antony Tudor / Frederick Ashton
Katherine Dunham, Portrait Gallery / Katherine Dunham
Alicia Markova, Portrait Gallery / Alicia Markova
(Excerpt from Hooray for What, Dance to the Piper) / Carmelita Maracci
(Excerpt from Trude, And Promenade Home) / Trude Rittmann
(R. and H., And Promenade Home / Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II
Alicia Alonso, Portrait Gallery / Alicia Alonso
Three Soviet Ballerinas: (Excerpts from Russian Journals, Dance Perspectives 44, 1970 / Eleonora Vlasova / Galina Ulanova / Maya Plisetskaya
The Stricken Body: Picture from the Inside: (Excerpt from Reprieve)
Essays
The Contribution: (Dance to the Piper)
Rhythm in My Blood: (And Promenade Home)
The Milk of Paradise: (And Promenade Home)
Old New York: (Portrait Gallery)
Art Is: (Excerpt from The Book of the Dance)
Curtains Up
Prodigal Son: (Acrobatics in the New Choreography, Theatre Guild Magazine, January 1930) / George Balanchine
Film DancesX by Agnes de Mille: (Excerpt from Hooray for What Dance to the Piper) / George Balanchine
Rain Dance: (Excerpt from Speak to Me, Dance with Me)
Antony Tudor (Excerpt from Hooray for What, Dance to the Piper) / Dark Elegies
Rodeo by Agnes de Mille (Rodeo, Dance to the Piper)
Oklahoma!, Dances by Agnes de Mille: (Beautiful Morning, Dance to the Piper)
One Touch of Venus, Dances by Agnes de Mille: (Show Biz, And Promenade Home)
Fall River Legend by Agnes de Mille: (Excerpts from Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death)
A Lesson in Bowing: (Excerpt from Reprieve)
Preparing for Performance: (To a Young Dancer)
Life Lines: An Exchange of Love Letters: (Walter's Book)
Acknowledgments
Literary Works by and about Agnes de Mille
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9780813035703
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