Jerome Robbins

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Jerome Robbins (1941), photographed by
Carl van Vechten

Jerome Robbins (born October 11, 1918 in New York City as Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz , † July 29, 1998 ibid) was an American choreographer and director.

Life

Jerome Robbins came from a Jewish home in New York. After finishing school, he began studying at New York University , but interrupted it after a year. Then he studied ballet with Ella Daganova (1897-1988), Eugene Loring (1911-1982) and the English dance teacher Antony Tudor (1908-1987) and trained as a modern dance dancer. Since 1937 he has appeared as a dancer , first in the musical field and then in 1940 moved to the Ballet Theater (later the American Ballet Theater). His solo roles as Hermes in "Helen of Troy", as Moor in "Petrouschka" and as Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet" caused a sensation. In 1942 he began working on the choreography of Fancy Free based on the music of Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). It was his first ballet, which was later expanded into the musical On the Town . The next year, Jerome choreographed Robbins' Trillion Dollar Baby . His choreography of the musical High Button Shoes (1947) became famous , for which he received the Tony Award . He received another Tony Award for directing the musical Anatevka (1964). He was awarded this prize five times in total. He was also the choreographer of the musical West Side Story . In 1971 Robbins developed a choreography for the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach . In total, his life's work comprises 66 choreographies.

From 1973 to 1988 he was a member of the New York State Council on the Arts / Dance Panel and since 1974 a member of the National Council on the Arts. Robbins got together with Robert Wise , the film awards Academy Award and Directors Guild of America Award for directing the film West Side Story . To produce and market films on dance and ballet themes, he founded the New York City Public Liberaly's Jerome Robbins Film Archive of the Dance Collection at Lincoln Center. From 1983 to 1990 he was co-ballet master of Peter Martins (born 1946) at the New York City Ballet. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts for his achievements and innovations in the field of dance art . A year later, Jerome Robbins combined excerpts from his earlier productions into a major Broadway show. In 1985 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . The American Academy of Arts and Sciences accepted him as a member in 1993.

He died in New York City after a heart attack. Its ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerome Robbins- Personnel Profile of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in: https://www.deutscheoperamrhein.de/de_DE/person/jerome-robbins.71407  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutscheoperamrhein.de  
  2. ↑ Honorary Members: Jerome Robbins. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anna Kisselgoff: Jerome Robbins, 79, Is Dead; Giant of Ballet and Broadway. In: The New York Times . July 30, 1998, accessed August 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Robbins, Jerome
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabinowitz, Jerome Wilson (maiden name); Rabinowitz, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1998
Place of death New York City , New York, United States