Jerome Robbins

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  • Jerome Robbins Book Detail

  • Author : Wendy Lesser
  • Release Date : 2018-10-09
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 213
  • ISBN 13 : 0300240422
  • File Size : 38,38 MB

Jerome Robbins by Wendy Lesser PDF Summary

Book Description: A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director 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.

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