Jerome Robbins : a life in dance /

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Author / Creator:	Lesser, Wendy, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : portrait
Language:	English
Series:	Jewish lives Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject:	Robbins, Jerome. Robbins, Jerome. Choreographers -- United States -- Biography. Choreographers. United States. collective biographies. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13512657

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ISBN:	9780300240429 0300240422 0300197594 9780300197594
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. In English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Lesser, Wendy. Jerome Robbins. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 0300197594
Standard no.:	10.12987/9780300240429

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