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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
Jerome Robbins |
Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz |
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.
Jerome 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. |
| 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. |
