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Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

Kara Anne Gardner

This work explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille.
America dances

America dances

Agnes De Mille

Agnes de Mille's wide-ranging knowledge of the history of dance informs this authoritative examination of early Indian dancing rituals, the contributions of Balanchine, Robbins, and Kidd, contemporary ballet, and even the recent disco ...
Agnes de Mille

Agnes de Mille

Judy L. Hasday

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: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

Kara Anne Gardner

These stories added a layer of meaning that resulted in more complex productions. Sometimes, de Mille's stories were different from the stories her collaborators wanted to tell, which caused many conflicts.
Agnes de Mille

Agnes de Mille

Rachel Gaskill

Presents the life and accomplishments of the choreographer who put dance at the center of Broadway musicals.
Reprieve: A Memoir

Reprieve: A Memoir

Agnes De Mille

The acclaimed and influential dancer-choreographer recounts the circumstances of the paralyzing stroke she suffered in 1975, her return to the stage, and the realignment of her life occasioned by those experiences
Dance to the Piper

Dance to the Piper

Agnes de Mille

Her memoir records with lighthearted 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 and New York and London during ...
No Intermissions: The Life Of Agnes De Mille

No Intermissions: The Life Of Agnes De Mille

Carol Easton

Now in paperback: The first comprehensive biography of the American cultural giant who changed popular theater and dance forever with her choreography for Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon.
Agnes De Mille: dancing off the earth

Agnes De Mille: dancing off the earth

Beverly Gherman

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."
Bulletin critique du livre français

Bulletin critique du livre français

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Psychopathologie 186539 □ Cultiver / Philippe Bouteloup, Agnès Chaumié, Chantal Grosléziat... [et al.] Ramonville-Saint-Agne : Érès, 2000. - 73 p. ; 16 X 12. - (Mille et un bébés) notes bibliogr. - 150 Psychologie. - Isbn 2-86586-828-1 : 35 Frf ...
Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Agnes De Mille

The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance
The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel

The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel

Brendan O'Carroll

A prequel to the Agnes Brown trilogy follows Agnes Reddin's 1940s childhood, during which she and best friend Marion Delany survive nun schoolteachers, their first experiences with boys, early jobs, and introductions to the street market ...
The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel

The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel

Brendan O'Carroll

A prequel to the Agnes Brown trilogy follows Agnes Reddin's 1940s childhood, during which she and best friend Marion Dalany survive nun schoolteachers, early jobs, and introductions to the street market trade by a tough ex-con.
Names of Irish Passengers to America: With Dates, Ports & ...

Names of Irish Passengers to America: With Dates, Ports & ...

Michael C. O'Laughlin

Murphy Mary- Monagher Africa 6/9/1811 Belfast - N.Y. Murphy John- Wexford Huntress 6/24/1811 Dublin - N.Y. Murphy ... Waterford Agnes Murphy Dennis- Wexford Agnes Murphy Richard- Carrick Agnes Murphy Edward- Waterford Agnes ...
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Megan Pugh

Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael Jackson, Megan Pugh shows how freedom—that nebulous, contested ...
Dance, Modernity and Culture

Dance, Modernity and Culture

Helen Thomas

... ofMartha Graham by Agnes de Mille, New York: Random House 1991; Blood Memory: An Autobiography by Martha Graham, New York: Doubleday 1991; The Techniques ofMartha Graham by Alice Helpern', Studies in Dance History 2, no.
Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda

Alison Smith

Agnès Varda, one of the major French filmmakers for the last forty years is here celebrated and situated by Alison Smith, by examining both the early films and the later successes, such as Sans Toit ni Loi (1985), Jane B. par Agnès V. ...
Emily Bront

Emily Bront

A. Mary F. Robinson

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known as Agnes-Marie-Francois Darmesteter after her first marriage, and Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux after her second, was born in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, (England) on February 27, 1857, and died in ...
Franz Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth: A Correspondence, ...

Franz Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth: A Correspondence, ...

Franz Liszt

Introduction III FRANZ LISZT AND AGNES STREET-KLINDWORTH "They called her 'lovely Agnes,' and I must say she deserved the name.'' Prince Karl Braun- Wiesbaden' LIFE BEFORE LISZT 2 RBYUB DB FRANCE avis sur I'autlicnlicit6 dcs ...
The Mammy

The Mammy

Brendan O'Carroll

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office.
Agnes Browne

Agnes Browne

Brendan O'Carroll

Agnes Browne faces the hardships and rewards of raising seven children on her own in a 1960s working-class Dublin neighborhood
A Changed Heart:

A Changed Heart:

May Agnes Fleming

Romance, suspense, and murder provide the backdrop for this Gothic novel set in mid-Victorian Saint John, New Brunswick, by 19th-century writer May Agnes Fleming.
Mabel Agnes Elliott: Pioneering Feminist, Pacifist Sociologist

Mabel Agnes Elliott: Pioneering Feminist, Pacifist Sociologist

Kathryn McGonigal

Mabel Agnes Elliott: Pioneering Feminist, Pacifist Sociologist provides a history of the life and career of the late Mabel Agnes Elliott (1898-1990), a pioneering female sociologist largely forgotten despite her achievements and ...
The Spatial Structure of Internal Trade in Staple Foodstuffs ...

The Spatial Structure of Internal Trade in Staple Foodstuffs ...

Agnes Musyoki

Agnes Musyoki. ~ — _ ___ - __ — —- - the distances between markets are too great that the assumptions underlying spatio-temporal analysis cannot be applied. These populations are served by only a single market for miles and even though ...
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset ...

Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset ...

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To Agnes Hudgate a sheep. To olde Agnes Denmans of Tyderleighe i2d. Residuary Legatee and Executor : Thomas Torry of Staple, county Somerset and Johane Tollers of Chardstocke widow. Overseers : Robert Crayford and John Westover.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest

Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest

Agnes Strickland

Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England From the Norman Conquest Volume 7 Agnes Strickland Elizabeth Strickland CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town,

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