Agnes de Mille: Dance's tireless advocate

The Boston Globe | October 9, 1993| | Copyright

When, as a tiny child, Agnes de Mille escaped her bath and ran stark naked onto the lawn, her family laughed. That reaction pleased her. Decades later, she connected the incident with her gift for comedy in dance -- a gift whose most famous result was her hugely popular 1942 ballet, "Rodeo," in which she played the lead -- a cowgirl who gets her guy. The image of de Mille most firmly imprinted on the public imagination is that of the spunky tomboy dressed in pants and boots, scorned by the prettier girls in their ruffles and bows.

De Mille, who died in New York on Thursday at age 88, was ...

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