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Jerome's parents were Russian Jewish Immagartes from Poland
to the US in 1904. Jerome Robbins was a dancer and American
Musical choreographer as well as a Ballet choreographer.
As a young boy, Jerome who showed an early aptitude for
music, dancing, and theatrics, attended schools in Weehawken
and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1935. Attended
college for a brief period and later his sister Sonia, who
had already danced professionally with Irma Duncan and Senya
Gluck-Sandor’s Dance Center, got him an apprenticeship
with Sandor’s company. This was to be his calling.
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Robbins began his career dancing in 1937 in musical comedy
, and and by 1940 he joined the Ballet Theater. In 1949
Robbins became associate artistic director and from 1983
to 1990 he was Co-Ballet master in chief (with Peter
Martins.) at the New York City Ballet
-In May, 1953, Robbins was
called before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
He admitted to having belonged to the American Communist
Party's Theatrical Transient Group between 1943 and 1947,
and also named eight colleagues as members.
Won five Tony and two special Oscar awards.
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