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Article: Agnes de Mille's Strides in Dance
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- The Washington Post
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- May 8, 1987
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"Agnes,the Indomitable de Mille," the 60-minute "Dance in
America" program that airs on Channel 26 tonight at 9 and on Maryland
Public Television at 10, will take its place in the archives as a
portrait of and tribute to one of the truly great figures in American
ballet, and an outstanding woman of the theater.
The documentary, which has de Mille (now in her eighties) on
screen much of the time and is also laced with rare footage of her
work in ballet and on Broadway, covers a lot of territory. Foremost,
it conveys the wonderfully pungent flavor of de Mille the person: the
remarkable mixture of intelligence, acrid wit, passion, stubbornness
and theatrical flair that has invested her ...