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Jerome Robbins : a life in dance / Wendy Lesser.

By: Series: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: viii, 200 pages : portrait ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300197594
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.82092 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.R52 L47 2018
Contents:
Overture -- Fancy free -- Age of anxiety -- The king and I -- The cage -- Afternoon of a faun -- West side story -- Fiddler on the roof -- Dances at a gathering -- The Goldberg variations -- In memory of. . . -- Coda.
Summary: "Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joining the family business. In 1936 he began working with Gluck Sandor, who ran a dance group and convinced him to change his name to Jerome Robbins. He went on to become a choreographer and director who worked in ballet, on Broadway, and in film. His stage productions include West Side Story, Peter Pan, and Fiddler on the Roof. In this deft biography, Wendy Lesser presents Jerome Robbins's life through his major dances, providing a sympathetic, detailed portrait of her subject."--Dust jacket.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GV1785 .R52 L47 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001457273

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.

Overture -- Fancy free -- Age of anxiety -- The king and I -- The cage -- Afternoon of a faun -- West side story -- Fiddler on the roof -- Dances at a gathering -- The Goldberg variations -- In memory of. . . -- Coda.

"Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joining the family business. In 1936 he began working with Gluck Sandor, who ran a dance group and convinced him to change his name to Jerome Robbins. He went on to become a choreographer and director who worked in ballet, on Broadway, and in film. His stage productions include West Side Story, Peter Pan, and Fiddler on the Roof. In this deft biography, Wendy Lesser presents Jerome Robbins's life through his major dances, providing a sympathetic, detailed portrait of her subject."--Dust jacket.

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