Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins [videorecording] : uncut / interviewer, Rosamond Bernier.

Publication

1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robbins, Jerome
• Bernier, Rosamond.

Description

1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Jerome Robbins discusses dancing for Bronislava Nijinska at Ballet Theatre, how he created Fancy Free, how he found composer Leonard Bernstein, how he selected dancers for Fancy Free, the audience and critics reactions to Fancy Free, how Robbins begins choreographing a ballet, how he chooses music, the use of Alban Berg's Violin concerto music and the choreographic problems creating In memory of ..., how he selects his next ballet to create, choreographing on himself, creating the choreographic work Moves in silence, the concepts behind the two versions of Ballade and the creation of Antique epigraphs and Afternoon of a faun, working abroad with Ballets U.S.A., how audiences should decide for themselves when observing his ballets, how he met and became friends with George Balanchine, what it was like working with Balanchine, the future of New York City Ballet without Balanchine, what is the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and concludes with Robbins briefly stating that dance can not be defined or explained and audiences shoud respond to the work itself without interpreting it.

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins uncut interview with BITC

Subject

• Robbins, Jerome
• Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
• Berg, Alban, 1885-1935
• Balanchine, George
• American Ballet Theatre
• New York City Ballet
• Ballets: U.S.A
• Fancy free (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• In memory of ... (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Moves (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Ballade (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Antique epigraphs (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Afternoon of a faun (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Choreography
• Music and dance

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Dance.
• Video.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Uncut interview of Jerome Robbins from the Dance in America's Choreography by Jerome Robbins with the New York City Ballet, *MGZIDVD 5-2799.
• This uncut interview was used by Judy Kinberg for the American Masters program Something to dance about: Jerome Robbins, 2008.
• Additional title taken from original cassette label.
• TCR time code stamp across bottom of screen.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at intermission during performance at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y., and telecast on WNET/Thirteen's Great Performances: Dance in America series on May 2, 1986.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Judy Kinberg.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6087

OCLC

713355155

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins [videorecording] : uncut / interviewer, Rosamond Bernier.

Imprint

1986.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped at intermission during performance at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y., and telecast on WNET/Thirteen's Great Performances: Dance in America series on May 2, 1986.

Performer

Interviewer, Rosamond Bernier.

Source

Gift; Judy Kinberg. NN-PD

Added Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Bernier, Rosamond. Interviewer

Kinberg, Judy. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6087