Gemze de Lappe, 95, Dies; Keeper of the Agnes de Mille Flame
“In the rope dance, there was a lift where I turned upside down and threw myself against Jimmy’s hip, and he took my hand and ran me around in a circle, with my head almost scraping the ground,” Miss de Lappe said in an interview in 2015 for New York City Center’s blog, adding that “it was really hard to teach it” to dancers in subsequent productions.
Many years later, in 1970, de Mille created…
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