There were twenty performers in the company, many of whom had worked for de Mille before. The leads were de Mille favourites James Mitchell, Gemze de Lappe, and Lidija Franklin, with secondary roles taken by Virginia Bosler, tap dancer and choreographer Danny Daniels, Loren Hightower, the specialist in Scottish dance James Jamieson, Bunty Kelley, Casimir Kokic, Evelyn Taylor, and Dusty Worrall. The ensemble and understudies included Edmund Balin, Robert Calder, Eleanor Fairchild, Jean Houloose, Alfa Liepa, Mavis Ray, and Lizanne Truex. Rufus Smith and Raimonda Orselli provided the singing.
In 1974, de Mille revived the company as Heritage Dance Theatre, in association with the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Further reading
- Cadwallader, Eleanor Fairchild. A Pot for Every Lid: Trials, Triumphs, and Survival During the Twentieth Century. Victoria, BC, CA: Trafford, 2005. ISBN 1-4120-4795-1. (Firsthand account of touring with the company.)
- Easton, Carol. No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille. New York: Da Capo Press, 2000. ISBN 0-306-80975-3.
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