Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Dance Icon Jerome Robbins
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By Wendy Lesser
Published October, 9, 2018
216 pages
“A compact and incisive portrait” —Kirkus Reviews
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director
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.
Explore Jerome Robbins' extraordinary body of work, bridging together Broadway and ballet like no other choreographer before or since.
Learn more in the new Jewish Lives biography JEROME ROBBINS: A LIFE IN DANCE, by Wendy Lesser
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REVIEWS
"This brisk biography . . . is light and bright, utterly persuaded by its subject and intoxicatingly in love with movement." —New York Times Book Review
“Wendy Lesser’s new biography deftly introduces readers to her complex subject and his many remarkable creative achievements.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Lesser. . . inspires. . .” —Pam Tanowitz
“This book answers questions I didn’t know I had. It is a fascinating and generous point of view.” —Mark Morris
