30th Anniversary of Choreographer Agnes de Mille’s Death Commemorated at 92nd Street Y

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30th Anniversary of Choreographer Agnes de Mille’s Death Commemorated at 92nd Street Y

A group of experts — Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, Ted Chapin, Elena Zahlmann, and Diana Byer — who have all been closely involved with de Mille’s choreographic and written works, celebrate de Mille’s major contribution to American dance and its cultural heritage, and explore how these contributions are still relevant today in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Agnes de Mille’s death in a live, online course presented by Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y.

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Artist and Filmmaker Alfred Leslie

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Artist and Filmmaker Alfred Leslie

The iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.

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