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Oct 18, 1993: Died:Agnes De Mille
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Oct. 18, 1993 What in The World Are We Doing?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 33
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<p> DIED. AGNES DE MILLE, 88, dancer and choreographer; in New York
City. The 1943 musical Oklahoma! was a breakthrough hit for
composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein--and
a choreographer named Agnes de Mille, who overnight transformed
Broadway dance from a mere ornament to an essential, expressive
element of theatrical storytelling. It was the perfect assignment
for a dancer who from the start of her career had choreographed
character studies and narrative ballets that combined classical
technique with unmistakably American popular and folk themes.
At the same time, composer Aaron Copland was forging a similar
artistic hybrid in classical music, and it was his and De Mille's
triumphant collaboration in the jaunty 1942 ballet Rodeo that
brought De Mille to the attention of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
De Mille's other Broadway successes included the choreography
for Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus and Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon.
A stroke in 1975 barely slowed down De Mille; she published
an account of her recovery in Reprieve: A Memoir, the 11th of
her 12 books, in 1981. She was still creating dances in her
80s, including the choreography for an American Ballet Theatre
production of the Irish Revolution morality tale The Informer.
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