Leaps in the dark: art and the world

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