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Dance to the Piper
Dance to the Piper | Agnes De Mille
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Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlovas beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she facedthe resistance of her parents, the sacrifices of her trainingbut also the frontier atmosphere of early Hollywood and New York and London during the Depression. This is the story of an American dancer, writes de Mille, a spoiled egocentric wealthy girl, who learned with difficulty to become a worker, to set and meet standards, to brace a Victorian sensibility to contemporary roughhousing, and who, with happy good fortune, participated by the side of great colleagues in a renaissance of the most ancient and magical of all the arts.
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mklong
Dance to the Piper | Agnes De Mille
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Great idea @vivastory It is hard to choose, but here are a couple of favorites. I read The Summer Book as a Litsy Buddy Read a couple of years ago and fell in love with Sophia and her Grandmother.

And Agnes DeMille is an all time favorite for this dance lover. I‘ve been wanting to reread this one, so you may see it as a nominee when it is my turn. #NYRBBookClub

batsy The Summer Book is one of the loveliest things I've read 💛 5y
LeahBergen I loved The Summer Book, too. 😍 5y
vivastory I have The Summer Book. Still TBR. Will definitely be bumping it up seeing all of the love for it. The other one sounds great! 5y
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mklong @LeahBergen @batsy Have either of you read True Deceiver? I loved The Summer Book so much that I‘d like to read more by her 5y
batsy @mklong I haven't and it's high on my list! 5y
saresmoore I loved The Summer Book and really loved another of hers, 5y
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Dance to the Piper | Agnes De Mille
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#MarchIntoReading Day 25 - This Title = Great Band Name

This book would make a great band name, especially for a bagpipe band!

saresmoore Uh, yes. Yes! 7y
8leagueboot NYRB publishes so many interesting titles! 7y
RealLifeReading Definitely! 7y
ApoptyGina69 I haven't read this, but I see Joan Acocella wrote the intro. I read her bio of the dancer Nijinsky. 7y
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