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  Jerome Robbins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918–July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater.
Robbins was born "Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz" on October 11, 1918, exactly one month before the end of World War I, in the Jewish Maternity Hospital in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East side – a neighborhood populated by many immigrants.
Robbins collaborated with George Abbott on The Pajama Game (1954), which launched the career of Shirley MacLaine, worked on the 1955 Mary Martin vehicle, Peter Pan (recreated for the small screen in 1955, 1956 and 1960) and directed and co-choreographed (with Bob Fosse) Bells Are Ringing (1956), starring Judy Holliday.
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 Jerome Robbins Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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.
Robbins shows -- and as he began to direct as well as create ideas and dances for them, they truly were Robbins shows -- had, or aimed to have, a story, characters, a point.
Robbins had already been made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, and had won 5 Donaldson Awards, 5 Tony Awards, 2 Academy Awards, 1 Emmy Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, and numerous other prizes; on the evening of his death, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for a moment in tribute.
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 Jerome Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robbins was the last of the triptych -- with George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein -- who together reared one of the most important cultural institutions our country has ever seen, New York City Ballet.
Robbins was born in 1918, and by the time he was dancing, in the 1930s, the modern-dance boom in Europe had come to America.
Robbins, on the other hand, was infamous for creating several versions of a section and rehearsing several casts before deciding who would dance the role and which version.
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 Jerome Robbins
Application should be made to the Jerome Robbins Foundation in the form of a complete description of the work or project needing funding or assistance and should include an itemized budget.
Jerome Robbins, felled by a stroke at the age of seventy-nine, was one of the great ones.
Robbins has also been a major factor in concert jazz dance and the development of the Broadway musical from a disconnected pastiche of dialogue, songs, and dances, to an integrated dance drama that relies heavily on dance to express emotions for which words are inadequate...
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 Jerome Robbins' Broadway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerome Robbins' Broadway was a Broadway production comprising musical numbers from earlier shows that were either directed or choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
It opened in 1989 at the Imperial Theater in New York and ran for a total of 634 performances.
Jerome Robbins won his fifth Tony Award for direction of the show.
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 BookRags: Jerome Robbins Biography
A major creative force on both the Broadway and ballet stages beginning in 1944, director/choreographer Jerome Robbins (born Rabinowitz, 1918-1998) extended the possibilities of musical theater and brought a contemporary American perspective to classical dance.
American director and choreographer Jerome Robbins was equally renowned for his work in musical theater and ballet and made auspicious debuts in both fields in 1944.
Robbins was born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York on October 11, 1918, to Russian Jewish parents who came to America to flee the pogroms.
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 Jerome Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robbins was a giant in both worlds, equally at home in the ballet company, where he created most of his more than 50 ballets, and in the musical theater where he choreographed and-or directed such diverse works as ``Gypsy,'' ``Fiddler on the Roof,'' ``The King and I,'' ``The Pajama Game'' and ``Peter Pan.''
Robbins ended the '50s with another musical theater milestone - directing and choreographing ``Gypsy,'' the backstage saga of a young Gypsy Rose Lee and her domineering mother, played by Ethel Merman.
Robbins was born Jerome Rabinowitz, Oct. 11, 1918, in New York, the son of a corset manufacturer.
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 Jerome Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Jerome Robbins was born on October 11, 1918 in New York City.
In 1940, Robbins became a member of the corps de ballet of the Ballet Theatre; he became a soloist in 1941.
Also in 1958, Robbins founded his own ballet company called Ballets U.S.A. The group was a success in Europe and New York City, but not so much in the rest of the United States.
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 Jerome Robbins Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
From 1941-44, Robbins was a soloist with the company, gaining notice for his Hermes in "Helen of Troy", the Moor in "Petrouchka" and Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet".
In 1964, Robbins won matching Tony Awards for his direction and choreography of "Fiddler on the Roof", one of the most successful musicals of all time that for many years also held the record as the longest running Broadway musical.
Robbins became ballet master of the New York City Ballet in 1972 and worked almost exclusively in classical dance throughout the next decade, pausing only to stage revivals of "West Side Story" (1980) and "Fiddler on the Roof" (1981).
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 Robbins, Jerome - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
ROBBINS, JEROME [Robbins, Jerome] 1918-98, American choreographer and dancer, b.
Robbins gained distinction as the exuberantly innovative choreographer of such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes (1947) and The King and I (1951).
From 1983 to 1990 Robbins was the City Ballet's co-ballet master in chief with Peter Martins, and many of his 66 ballets continue to be performed by the company.
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 glbtq >> arts >> Robbins, Jerome
Robbins took a leave from New York City Ballet in 1988 to stage Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989), an anthology of dances and scenes from eleven of his Broadway shows.
Ballet dancer Nora Kaye told reporters that she and Robbins were to be wed in 1951; at the same time, Broadway dancer Buzz Miller and Robbins were in the midst of their five-year live-in relationship (1950-1955).
On 29 July 1998, Robbins died of a stroke at the age of 79.
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 The Dance Master: The Legacy of Jerome Robbins
Named in his honor, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division is home to the largest collection of dance materials in the world--where stage designs, photographs, notes, books, video recordings, papers, sketchbooks, and other ephemera that make up the history of dance are preserved and made accessible.
Robbins was ambitious, and although he danced with the newly formed Ballet Theater and worked in several Broadway shows, he desperately wanted to choreograph.
While Robbins was working in musical theater, he continued to create works for the concert stage and formed his own experimental ballet company called Ballet U.S.A. In 1969, Robbins left theater work and returned to the New York City Ballet after a ten-year leave of absence.
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 NewStandard: 7/30/98
NEW YORK -- Jerome Robbins, one of modern ballet's master choreographers and director of such legendary Broadway musicals as "West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Fiddler on the Roof," died yesterday at the age of 79.
Robbins then disappeared from Broadway, returning 25 years later with "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," a retrospective of his musical theater choreography.
Robbins is survived by a sister, Sonia Cullinen; a niece; and a nephew.
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 Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998 by Laura Jacobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robbins worked a stunning opposition into the choreography: absolutely explosive displays of sexual, territorial energy, but trapped within the dynamics of popular dance (mambas, cha-chas, jazz contractions, beatnik shrugs), and so luminously constructed that you saw everything—wide shot, zoom-in, switchblade.
What Robbins wanted was to choreograph in a situation where he had sole control of the dance.
Robbins possessed the steps, adopted the classical etiquette, had formal facility to spare, and was superb within the framework of beginning-middle-and-end (The Cage; Afternoon of a Faun; The Concert; Ives, Songs).
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 Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins received world renown as a choreographer of ballets created for the New York City Ballet, Ballets U.S.A., American Ballet Theatre and other international companies.
In 1988 he took a leave of absence to stage "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," which opened in 1989 to resounding critical and popular acclaim, and in 1990 he resigned from the position of Ballet Master in Chief -- which he shared with Peter Martins -- to pursue other projects.
Robbins served on the National Council on the Arts from 1974 to 1980, and the New York State Council on the Arts/Dance Panel from 1973 to 1988.
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 Jerome Robbins
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 Playbill News: Jerome Robbins Dead at 79
Jerome Robbins, the elegant choreographer/director who turned the swagger of New York teen gangs into the purest of dance in West Side Story on stage and film, died July 29.
In the chorus once again were Robbins, Kaye, Alonzo and Godkin and a newcomer, Maria Karniloff (later Karnilova, whom he'd later memorably direct as the balletic stripper Tessie Tura in Gypsy and the put-upon mother Golde in Fiddler.).
Robbins was listed as a dancer, but he also provided some uncredited choreography.
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 Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man - Dancing Around The Real Robbins - Review Dance Magazine - Find ...
Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man By Christine Conrad.
Her assignment from the publisher must have been to do a coffee-table book--one of those tomes that, if it had legs, would be a table.
His finest Broadway works are undoubtedly West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof The choice is more difficult in ballet because the range is far wider.
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 TIME.com: Peter Pan Flies Again -- Mar. 6, 1989 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
With this new show, Robbins is both appealing to Broadway tradition and bucking it.
Robbins has always been a spellbinding storyteller; the narrative clarity of each movement instantly draws viewers into the roiling emotional life of his characters.
Finally, we are all in his hands." They are also in the hands of the '80s Broadway babies, raised on body mikes, synthesizers and musicals with no dance numbers.
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 Amazon.com: Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man: Books: Christine Conrad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer Directors, 1940 to the Present by Robert Emmet Long
Robbins is known for choreographing major Broadway musicals like West Side Story and The King and I and also many ballets.
Because of her longstanding relationship with Robbins, Conrad was given access to previously unseen early childhood and early dance photographs and Robbins' own drawings and writings.
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 Amazon.ca: Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man: Books: Christine Conrad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Conrad, a screenwriter and longtime friend of Robbins, has combined photographs of Robbins's childhood, insider looks at rehearsals, and lovely photos of performances of his choreography with excerpts from his journals and brief biographical narrative.
Jerome Robbins is brought to vivid life in this amazing and stunning pictorial biography.
Robbins is so eloquently captured on these pages, both in images, and in his own words, that I came away from the book feeling as if I had known him.
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 Talkin' Broadway - Sound Advice: 6/14/99
The last revue to open on Broadway that was based on a director/choreographer was Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
The difference between Fosse and Jerome Robbins' Broadway is that the latter was comprised completely of sequences taken from musical comedy classics whereas the segments in Fosse are taken from film, TV and Broadway and that's where the problem lies, at least on disc.
Charming as it may be, it is hardly the type of show that today's audiences look for in a Broadway musical and that is a shame.
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 Jerome Robbins Dead At 79 - CBS News
Robbins was a giant in both worlds, equally at home in the City Ballet, where he created most of his more than 50 ballets, and in the musical theater where he choreographed and-or directed such diverse works as Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, The Pajama Game and Peter Pan.
Among its ten Oscars were two to Robbins, for best director (shared with Robert Wise, the first time the best-direction Oscar went to dual winners) and best choreographer.
Robbins ended the '50s with another musical theater milestone directing and choreographing Gypsy, the backstage saga of a young Gypsy Rose Lee and her domineering mother, played by Ethel Merman.
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 Jerome Robbins
He was one of the first great American-born ballet masters and also a major Broadway and film choreographer, winning four Tony Awards and two
In his career with City Ballet he created some 50 ballets that testify to the diversity of his talent and confirm his place as a 20th century ballet master.
He returned briefly to Broadway in 1989 with an anthology of past hits entitled Jerome Robbin's Broadway.
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 Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Jerome Robbins | PBS
He and Robert Wise were also awarded Oscars when they co-directed the film version of "West Side Story" in 1961.
After working on the London productions of "Funny Girl" and "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1966 and 1967, Robbins turned away from the Broadway musical theater and announced that he was devoting his life to ballet.
Robbins continued to work on ballets until his death in July 1998.
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 JEROME ROBBINS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/17/1960
The evening at the theater mentioned by Robbins was to see a performance of the Little Players, a five-member theatrical puppet troupe created by two artists, FRANK PESCHKA and BILL MURDOCK.
Robbins was one of the first great American-born ballet masters and also a major Broadway and film choreographer.
He won Tony Awards for Best Choreography in 1948 (High Button Shoes), 1958 (West Side Story) and 1965 (Fiddler on the Roof) and in 1989 for directing Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
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 Playbill Biography: JEROME ROBBINS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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.
Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances at a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces and Ives Songs, which are in the repertories of the New York City Ballet and other major dance companies throughout the world.
Robbins received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Awards, the Screen Directors' Guild Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
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 The Insider by Ken Mandelbaum: Mother/Daughter Cha-Cha, - Broadway.com Buzz
Mentioned as a possibility for Broadway in the spring, the new Frank Wildhorn/Nan Knighton musical Camille Claudel will have a reading in October, to be directed by Gabriel Barre.
Brescia, who is currently understudying Fournier, was in the ensemble of the 2000 Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar and has been seen in various roles at Goodspeed.
Kennedy last appeared on Broadway when she went on numerous times for Emily Skinner in Side Show.
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 Bernadette-Peters.com: Jerry Mitchell and Jerome Robbins: top names in choreography
is currently represented on Broadway with Hairspray, and Imaginary Friends and the upcoming Little Shop of Horrors.  He began his choreographic career as associate choreographer to Michael Bennett on Scandal and Jerome Robbins on Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
He began on Broadway as a chorus dancer, before joining the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theatre where he danced principal roles in the works of Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine and de Mille.
After the triumph of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964, Robbins dedicated himself to creating for the New York City Ballet, where in 1983 he shared the position of Ballet Master-in-Chief with Peter Martins.
www.bernadette-peters.com /articles/gypsy/page11.shtml   (387 words)

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