Word: agnese
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Agnes took them too. She soon began inventing her own steps, kept up her practicing all through school. But Agnes was no ballerina ("Nothing gave, nothing stretched"). Ballet refused to take her seriously.
Agnes remembers herself as a plump and awkward little girl, who liked to scurry about the house, at the age of seven, imitating Pavlova. Her father, Playwright William de Mille (a brother of Producer Cecil B.), thought her imitation preposterous. Agnes could be anything she wanted, he said-except a...
"Then," says Agnes, "my sister's arches fell." The doctor prescribed ballet lessons.
That night in 1942, Choreographer Agnes George de Mille got her first taste of success. Last week, when the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo again, with Agnes dancing as the Cowgirl, the boots and blue-jeans no longer seemed strange; her wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer...
Agnes borrowed money, gave recitals, lost money. Then she went to England, "where it was cheaper to fail." Gradually, critics began to applaud her ballets for their witty pantomime and fast, fresh paces. The Ballet Russe finally asked her for a choreography. Result: Rodeo.