WorksLeaps in the Dark: Art and the World, by Agnes de Mille (ed.)
Tony Award-winning choreographer Agnes de Mille ("Oklahoma!," "Brigadoon," "One Touch of Venus," "Rodeo," "Fall River Legend") was also an author of some dozen books of memoirs and word-portraits of her colleagues, friends, and family in dance, the theater, and the movies. Her first two memoirs--"Dance to the Piper," "And Promenade Home"--made the art of dancing and choreography magical for several generations of readers. In 2010, when all of her books, save her biography of her friend Martha Graham, are out of print, this collection restores glimpses of de Mille's vivid and authoritative writing for a new generation, as well as for those whose love of the theater life she so strongly helped to nourish. Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation
“ . . . priceless . . . . a level of Disney-history erudition which is hard to find outside of books written by Disney specialists”—Didier Ghez, disneybooks.blogspot.com Dance Anecdotes
"Mindy Aloff redefines the notion of anecdote as topical fluff. While her book has its share of today’s amusing stories, the reader will also find a range of subjects from Ancient Greece to the courts of France to Balanchine and a look, both serious and humorous, at such issues as stagefright, criticism, creativity, and backstage politics." --Nancy Reynolds, Director of Research at The George Balanchine Foundation and co-author of No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century |
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