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Jerome Robbins |
Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz |
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Jerome's parents were Russian Jewish
Immigrates 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. |
Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| New
York City |
10/11/1918
- 7/29/1998 |
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Night Clubs |
Theaters |
Stage |
| Tamiment (the
PA. Pocono's) |
Yiddish
Art Theatre |
1937 - Brothers Ashkenazi (First
Dance) |
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92nd
Street YMHA (NY) |
1938
- Great Lady |
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New
York World’s Fair |
1939
- Stars in Your Eyes |
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NY
Ballet Theater |
1939
- The Straw Hat Revue |
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Metropolitan
Opera House |
1940
- Keep Off The Grass |
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1944
- Fancy Free |
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1944
- On The Town |
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1946
- Billion Dollar Baby |
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1947
- High Button Shoes |
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1948
- Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’ |
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1948
- That’s the Ticket |
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1951
- King and I |
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1954
- Peter Pan |
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1957
- West Side Story |
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1964
- Fiddler on the Roof |
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Three
Virgins and a Devil |
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