Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Behind the Scenes of the Russian Ballet, July 1942: An Excerpt from Agnes de Mille’s ‘Dance to the Piper’

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Born into the famous de Mille family of writers, playwrights, and filmmakers, Agnes de Mille felt a calling to become, instead, a dancer and choreographer. It’s a lucky thing, too, for as Joan Acocella writes in the introduction to an important reissue of de Mille’s own classic memoir, Dance to the Piper — out this month from NYRB Classics — de Mille’s contribution to the art of dance cannot be diminished.
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