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Article: The De Mille legacy. (dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Through one of those many tiny ironies by which Life lets us know it's still there, Agnes de Mille's usual seats for American Ballet Theatre performances at the Metropolitan Opera House were directly in front of my own. Therefore I had to sit through countless Lizzie Bordens administering countless whacks, see dozens of Cowgirls get their men, and watch inumerable Virgins foolishly lose it to Hell, all the time breathing down Agnes's bristling neck. In many ways I was not her greatest admirer--as she knew all too well--yet there we were, stuck with one another, an odd couple on the same side of the aisle but with rather different aesthetic viewpoints.
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