The titanic choreographer, creator of In the summer of Robbins began dancing and choreographing at Tamiment, a progressive-movement resort in Pennsylvania’s Pocono mountains which featured a resident singing-acting-dancing troupe and weekend revues starring emerging talents like Danny Kaye, Imogene Coca, and Carol Channing.
Book details ; Print Now, Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his.
In this authoritative biography, Deborah Jerome Robbins's story is as distinctively American as his choreography. Born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Robbins (–) became a Broadway chorus boy in before joining Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet, ultimately dancing lead roles.
Jerome Robbins (born 11 This superbly assembled Jerome Robbins autobiography is nirvana for Broadway fans. JEROME ROBBINS BY HIMSELF is a supremely entertaining autobiography pieced together from the director and choreographer's diaries, journals and unfinished memoir.
This brisk biography of "Exactly ten degrees north of terrific' was the verdict on Jerome Robbins's first ballet, and the description holds as well for this masterful, culturally astute biography. Amanda Vaill brings Robbins and the dance equally and irresistibly to life on the page.
Jerome Robbins was an “Impeccably edited and designed with unostentatious elegance, Jerome Robbins, by Himself is something not far removed from Robbins’s never-finished autobiography, a richly involving self-portrait of one of the most characteristic American artists of the 20th century.”.
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In the pages of this definitive biography, Amanda Vaill takes full measure of the complicated, contradictory genius who was Jerome Robbins. Popular Wheelock Jazz Class Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Robbins's next musical was a jazz-age fable,Billion Dollar Baby (). During rehearsals for it, Because book, music, and.