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Aug 9, 2008 · Something to Dance About. August 9, 2008. No other creative figure of the latter twentieth century was as contradictory as Jerome Robbins, and few were as controversial. He was a master of the ...
Jul 29, 1998 · JEROME ROBBINS (born 11 October 1918 in New York City) was the younger of two children of Harry Rabinowitz, who emigrated to America from Poland in 1904, and his wife Lena Rips.
May 16, 2018 · Jerome Robbins was a perfectionist and a demanding taskmaster. Just as he wanted dancers onstage to be versions of themselves, he wanted everything he made to be distinctive. To be, unmistakably ...
Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and television. His Broadway shows include On the Town , Billion Dollar Baby , High Button Shoes , West Side Story , The King and I , Gypsy , Peter Pan , Miss Liberty , Call Me Madam , and Fiddler on the Roof .
Jerome Robbins in Fancy Free, 1944. Jerome Robbins, orig. Jerome Rabinowitz, (born Oct. 11, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 29, 1998, New York City), U.S. dancer, choreographer, and director. He joined Ballet Theatre (later American Ballet Theatre) as a dancer in 1940. His first choreographic success was Fancy Free (set to a musical ...
May 18, 2018 · Robbins was born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York on October 11, 1918, to Russian Jewish parents who came to America to flee the pogroms. He grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, and was in his late teens when he began studying at the Sandor-Sorel Dance Center in Brooklyn. He later took lessons in modern, Spanish, and Oriental dance.
Jerome Robbins, the choreographer and director, eventually realized he could do the setup of the whole production best in dance. And he did. In 1957, when dance rehearsals began for West Side Story, Robbins was a well-known choreographer for Broadway and ballet. Robbins knew that dance could best convey a primary conflict of West Side Story ...
