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Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Title
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance / Wendy Lesser.
- Author
- Lesser, Wendy
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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- Description
- viii, 200 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Jewish lives
- Uniform Title
- Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- *MGYB (Robbins) 18-3045
- ISBN
- 0300197594
- 9780300197594
- OCLC
- 1024159606
- Author
- Lesser, Wendy, author.
- Title
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance / Wendy Lesser.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Jewish livesJewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Research Call Number
- *MGYB (Robbins) 18-3045