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...