“AGNES DE MILLE AND THE FEMALE NARRATIVE”

A FREE public Program at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

MOnday, April 3, 6:00pm

Bruno Walter Auditorium

PANEL TO FEATURE DISCUSSION, LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND Historical Film Footage

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza (entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue between 64th and 65th Streets) in New York City. 

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            To honor Agnes de Mille on the 30th Anniversary of her passing, The De Mille Working Group, under the Directorship of Anderson Ferrell, will present a public program featuring live performances, panel discussion, and historical film footage, 6:00P.M-7:30 P.M. on Monday, April 3 at the New York Public Library(NYPL) for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium.

            Moderated by Linda Murray, Curator for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and Interim Executive Director of the NYPL for the Performing Arts, the panel will focus on de Mille’s multi-faceted female characters, exploring the meaning and intent behind the choreographer’s vision.

            Free to the public, the NYPL program will feature a notable panel of experts including:

Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director Emeritus, Dance Theatre of Harlem

Kathleen Moore, former Principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre, Faculty at princeton Ballet school and Princeton University

Elena Zahlmann, Associate Director, Principal dancer, repetiteur, New York THeatre Ballet

Diana Byer, Artistic Director Emerita of New York Theatre Ballet and stager of de Mille works, and

Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, former rehearsal assistant to de Mille, professor, and associate director and repetiteur of the De Mille Working Group.

Live performance excerpts scheduled for “Agnes de Mille and The Female Narrative” include: Emma Von Enck and VIctor Abreu from New York City Ballet in a solo and pas de deux from the original Broadway production of Carousel and ELena Zahlmann in de Mille’s solo from Debut at the Opera (1927). Performances accompanied by Michael Scales.

Film footage from many of de Mille’s historic works, some never seen publicly, will be shown throughout the program, including excerpts from the film Ballet Class (1929), “Civil War Ballet” from Bloomer Girl (1944, 1956 film), a televised version of Fall River Legend, featuring Virginia Johnson and the late Lowell Smith, performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem (1989), and a filmed performance of The Informer performed, featuring Kathleen Moore and Victor Barbee, performed by American Ballet Theatre (1988).