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Jerome Robbins (1918 - 1998)
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 Jerome
Robbins : That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man by
Christine Conrad
In theatre, dance and
film, Jerome Robbins had one of the most significant and sustained
creative careers of the 20th century. His ability to convey
emotion and drama through movement is unrivalled and his artistic
breakthroughs in form and content in these media are now seen
everywhere. This illustrated book of his life and work is a visual
exploration and evocation of a creative journey.
As well as a chronology of his life, the book
also explores the important threads running through Robbin's work:
his influences, the joys and frustrations, his working methods,
his fight for recognition, his collaboration with people such as
Leonard Bernstein, fame and its effects. A sense of immediacy is
conveyed by the use of Robbin's own words, which capture his tone
and often irreverent wit.
The friendship between Robbins and Christine
Conrad began in the mid-Sixties and lasted until his death.
He left behind a vast collection of material
from his long career which he wanted to share with others and a
wealth of photographs, art works, posters, personal drawings, and
interviews [now in the New York Public Library], have been made
available for the book, in addition to exclusive access to
personal journals and private letters. The result is a book that
is a delight to the mind, the eye and the soul.
Access to personal journals, previously
unpublished
A unique celebration of Jerome Robbins and his
contribution to 20th-century dance and theatre: pictorial,
visceral and accessible to all
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The Foundation Board members meet semi-annually
to review grant applications, and awards are usually announced
during the last week in September.
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. If you are requesting a general support
contribution, then a review of past activities and future plans
should also accompany your application. In addition, we require
that all applications include mention of past and present funding
sources, along with an IRS statement of tax-exempt status.
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By Clive Barnes, Dance Magazine, Issue:
Oct, 1998
Excerpt:
Jerome Robbins made indelible changes in both
musical theater and classical ballet.
Jerome Robbins, felled by a stroke at the age of
seventy-nine, was one of the great ones. Appropriately, it was
Peter Martins, his longtime colleague at New York City Ballet, who
put it best: "He was the last of the titans in the world of
dance. Balanchine is gone. So are Ashton, Tudor, and Graham. And
now Jerry." But Robbins, like Balanchine before him, is one
of the lucky ones. As Martins concluded: "He will live on
through his ballets, by which the next generation will come to
know him and appreciate him as we have. He regarded New York City
Ballet as his family, and he will always remain so to us."
And there seems little doubt that City Ballet will prove as
zealous at maintaining their Robbins heritage as they have their
Balanchine heritage. They know how to order these things...
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by Laura Jacobs
Excerpt:
When Jerome Robbins died on July 29, 1998, at
the age of seventy-nine, the world lost not one choreographer, but
two. One of these choreographers was a genius.
This was the Jerome Robbins who choreographed
thirteen Broadway shows—legend among them On the Town, The
King and I, Peter Pan, Gypsy, and Fiddler on
the Roof. This was the Robbins who conceived, directed, and
choreographed West Side Story, the musical and film
phenomenon that had every baby-boomer boy in America attempting
that chesty Jets leap, that T (for testosterone) in the air. And
this was the Robbins of Fancy Free, a ballet whose
character— down-to-earth, free of classical pretensions—is
captured forever in its title...
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The Chicago
Tribune
Excerpt:
In his later years, Jerome Robbins had the
bearing and the manners of an autocrat. Perfect in posture, his
angular face neatly trimmed with a closely cropped white beard, he
looked the role of the grand master. At his death in 1998 at 79,
he had all the awards that movies, theater and dance could offer,
with an unequaled record of ballets and Broadway shows...
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By Cheryl Cowan
Excerpt:
On July 29th, 1998, Jerome Robbins died of a
stroke in his home in New York City. 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 Academy
Awards.
He was born Jerome Rabinowitz, October 11, 1918,
son of Jewish immigrants. As a child he studied the piano and
violin as well as dance. He studied ballet with Ula Duganova,
Eugene Loring, and Anthony Tudor; modern dance with the New Dance
League; interpretive dance with Sonya Robbins; Spanish dance with
Helene Viola; and Oriental dance with Nimura, and in 1940 he
joined American
Ballet Theater as a dancer. In 1942 he choreographed his first
ballet, Fancy
Free , which recounts the adventures of three young
sailors on leave. His style combined more popular dance styles
with classical ballet in a way that was new at the time. In 1948
Balanchine invited him to join the newly created New
York City Ballet, and in 1950 he received a Dance Magazine
Award for his interpretation of Balanchine's Prodigal Son.
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From jazzart.org
Excerpt:
Jerome Robbins has given more visibility and
recognition to jazz dancing than any other choreographer. Through
his monumental success with West Side Story , audiences
throughout the world have witnessed finely crafted jazz dancing.
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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