Dance to the Piper (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Agnes De Mille
- First Published: 1951
- Time of Work: 1913–1943
- Setting: Hollywood, New York City, and London
- Principal Characters: Agnes De Mille, Cecil B. De Mille, Geraldine Farrar, Anna Pavlova, Martha Graham, Anthony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Autobiography, Art or artists, Dancing or dancers, Ballet or ballet dancers
- Locales: New York, NY, London, England, Hollywood, CA
Form and Content
Agnes De Mille’s Dance to the Piper is the story of a young woman who always wanted to dance. Her theatrical family hoped to discourage her of any ambitions toward a career in theater, so they refused her impassioned pleas to have dancing lessons. They relented when De Mille reached the age of eleven, and even though she was too old to be trained in classical ballet, she began training anyway. Her parents limited her time in the studio to two hours a week, so she was forced to practice alone; she practiced incorrectly. As she matured physically, her...
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