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DeMille, Agnes George
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DeMille, Agnes George
US dancer and choreographer. She introduced popular dance idioms into ballet with such works as Rodeo (1942). One of the most significant contributors to the American Ballet Theater, with dramatic ballets like Fall River Legend (1948), based on the Lizzie Borden murder case, she also led the change on Broadway to new-style musicals with her choreography of Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), and others.
DeMille studied ballet with Marie Rambert in the UK, dancing in ballets and musicals in Europe before making her debut as a choreographer in the USA.
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