In 1943, two 25 year olds — Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein — were about to rock the ballet world. The dance they collaborated on was Fancy Free — about three sailors in a bar, trying to meet ...

The rich history of American ballet is celebrated in classic works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, two choreographic giants of the 20th century. Apollo brought Balanchine together for the ...

After performing a well-received production of Jerome Robbins’ “Fancy Free” five years ago, Sarasota Ballet is adding another one of the iconic and mercurial choreographer’s works as it closes out the ...

NEW YORK — All too soon, New York City Ballet’s “Robbins 100” season is over. Its 20 ballets proved hurdles the dancers, and musicians, were happy to leap in glowing form — a glow shared by the ...

NEW YORK — Warren Carlyle was leaping around, more or less in one spot. He was also singing along to the music of a number of storied musicals being showcased in the new work he was putting together ...

Jerome Robbins's "Dances at a Gathering" changed the course of American dance. Not only is it one of the most imitated of all ballets, but these 18 dances set to Chopin piano pieces that Robbins made, ...

Beach, meadow, and ballroom — all were prominent landscapes in the “Essential Robbins,” program New York City Ballet performed last week. The evocation of rural community came in the hour-long “Dances ...

It could be argued that the American ballet style was born on April 18, 1944, when an unknown dancer named Jerome Robbins (teamed with an almost equally unknown composer named Leonard Bernstein) ...

"Great artists are not great saints," says one observer, talking about Jerome Robbins in an elegant, first-ever documentary about the famously hot-tempered Broadway hitmaker. True, Robbins was no ...