| Description |
xvii, 290 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Portraits And Self-Portraits -- Agnes de Mille Takes Her Own Measure -- (Excerpt from Speak to Me, Dance with Me) -- 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) -- Theodore Kosloff -- (Excerpts from "The Kosloff School," Dance to the Piper) -- (Excerpt from "The Profession," Dance to the Piper) / 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) / Frederick Ashton -- |
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Contents note continued: ("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) / Oscar Hammerstein II -- ("Alicia Alonso," Portrait Gallery) / Alicia Alonso -- (Excerpts from "Russian Journals," Dance Perspectives 44, 1970) / 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) -- Stains Up -- Prodigal Son / George Balanchine -- ("Acrobatics in the New Choreography," Theatre Guild Magazine, January 1930) -- Romeo and Juliet, Film Dances / Agnes de Mille -- |
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Contents note continued: (Excerpt from "Hooray for What," Dance to the Piper) -- Rain Dance -- (Excerpt from Speak to Me, Dance with Me) -- Dark Elegies / Antony Tudor -- (Excerpt from "Hooray for What," Dance to the Piper) -- Rodeo / Agnes de Mille -- ("Rodeo," Dance to the Piper) -- Oklahoma!, Dances / Agnes de Mille -- ("Beautiful Morning," Dance to the Piper) -- One Touch of Venus, Dances / Agnes de Mille -- ("Show Biz," And Promenade Home) -- Fall River Legend / 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) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Modern dance.
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| Author |
Aloff, Mindy, 1947-
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| LC no. |
2010042342 |
| ISBN |
9780813035703 |
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0813035708 |
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