The topic Rodeo is discussed in the following articles:

De Mille

  • TITLE: Agnes de Mille (American dancer and choreographer)
    Rodeo (1942), one of her most important ballets, was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The first ballet to include tap dancing, it used distinctively American gestures—bronco-riding and steer-roping movements. Most of de Mille’s other ballets were choreographed for New York City’s Ballet Theatre, which she joined in 1940. Her works for that company include Fall River...

history of tap dance

  • TITLE: tap dance
    SECTION: Film
    ...attributed to a series of events in the 1940s. In 1942 Agnes de Mille introduced narrative ballet into the Broadway show with Oklahoma!. Although in Rodeo (1942) she had also been the first to introduce tap dance into ballet, her billing as a “choreographer” and the false competition with ballet made tap seem...