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Dance to the piper / Agnes De Mille ; introduction by Joan Acocella.
- Title
- Dance to the piper / Agnes De Mille ; introduction by Joan Acocella.
- Author
- De Mille, Agnes
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
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- Additional Authors
- Acocella, Joan Ross
- Description
- 340 pages,10 pages of plates : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova's beauty, in that moment she dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with light-hearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced - the resistance of her parents, the sacrifices of her training - but also the frontier atmosphere of early Hollywood, as well as New York and London during the Depression. "This is the story of an American dancer," writes Agnes de Mille, "a spoiled egocentric wealthy girl, who learned with difficulty to become a worker, to set and meet standards, to brace a Victorian sensibility to contemporary roughhousing, and who, with happy good fortune, participated by the side of great colleagues in a renaissance of the most ancient and magical of all the arts.""--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- New York Review Books classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Note
- Includes index.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- New York -- Early Hollywood -- The industry -- "Do something!" -- The brothers -- Pavlova -- The Kosloff School -- Ballet and sex -- The swan -- Adolescence -- Decision -- Tryouts -- The profession -- Local girl -- Martha Graham -- Flying colors -- Paris -- Brussels -- London -- Marie Rambert -- Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing -- American dancer in London -- American dancer comes home -- Hooray for what -- Second start -- Russian ballet -- Rodeo -- The contribution -- Beautiful morning.
- ISBN
- 9781590179086 (paperback)
- 1590179080 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^2015015603
- OCLC
- 909538020
- SCSB-10705374
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library