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Article: Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998.(Obituary)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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When Jerome Robbins died on July 29, 1998, at the age of seventy-nine, the world lost not one choreographer, but two. One of these choreographers was a genius.
This was the Jerome Robbins who choreographed thirteen Broadway shows--legend among them On the Town, The King and I, Peter Pan, Gypsy, and Fiddler on the Roof. This was the Robbins who conceived, directed, and choreographed West Side Story, the musical and film phenomenon that had every baby-boomer boy in America attempting that chesty Jets leap, that T (for testosterone) in the air. And this was the Robbins of Fancy Free, a ballet whose character--down-to-earth, free of classical pretensions--is captured ...
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