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This 5 page discussion considers Jerome Robbins premise, 'When you learn to move your body on a note of music,
it's exciting. You have taken control of your body and, by learning to do that, you discover that you can take control of your life.' A Betomann Archive photo of Robbins teaching in West Side Story is included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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your life" (www.kenedy-center.org). Originally born , Jerome Rabinowitz, in New York City ,Jerome Robbins did indeed control his life through dance. Although he
began as a modern dancer, his start on Broadway was as a chorus dancer before joining the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in 1939, where he went on
to dance principal roles in the works of Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine and de Mille. He created more than 50 ballets, including "Afternoon of a Faun" (1953), "The
Concert" (1956), "Les Noces" (1965), "Dances at a Gathering" (1969), "In the Night" (1970), "In G Major" (1975), "Other Dances" (1976), "Glass Pieces" (1983) and "Ives Songs" (1989) which are
in the repertories of the New York City Ballet, the Ballet de lOpera de Paris and major dance companies throughout the world. (www.alphabase.com).
He has given more visibility and recognition to jazz dancing than any other choreographer. Through his monumental success with West Side Story , audiences throughout the world have witnessed
finely crafted jazz dancing. Robbins has also been a major factor in concert jazz dance and the development of the Broadway musical from
a disconnected collection of dialogue, songs, and dances, to an integrated dance drama which relies heavily on dance to express emotions for which words may be incomplete or inadequate (www.jazzart.org).
As a concert jazz dancer, in the 1950s Robbins experimented with developing his clean style of ballet-influenced jazz dance with his company Ballets USA. This company performed internationally, and introduced
NY Export: Opus Jazz , Interplay , and other concert jazz dances. Both of these pieces are still active in the repertory of the New York City Ballet, and the
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