[audiobook] Foundation: B-boys; B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York by Joseph G. Schloss in Arts-Photography

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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 Pavlovarsquo;s beauty; in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she facedmdash;the resistance of her parents; the sacrifices of her trainingmdash;but also the frontier atmosphere of early Hollywood and New York and London during the Depression. ldquo;This is the story of an American dancer;rdquo; writes de Mille; ldquo;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.rdquo;