Archives for August 20, 2021

Allegra Kent and Arthur Mitchell dance the pas de deux from George Balanchine’s Agon in a 1973 film. Mitchell created his role in the work’s 1957 New York City Ballet premiere. The score was written for Balanchine by Igor Stravinsky:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)