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Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
As shown on the PBS American Masters Series 02/18/09
A not-to-be-missed 130 minute documentary on Robbins featuring excerpts from his personal journals, archival performance footage, never-before-seen rehearsals, as well as interviews with Robbins himself and over forty others, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Chita Rivera, and Stephen Sondheim. Covers his transformations from modern dancer to ballet dancer, to master of the Broadway Musical, and to one of the greatest ballet choreographers. Includes excerpts from his ballets: Fancy Free, Les Noces, The Cage, Dances at a Gathering, Other Dances, The Goldberg Variations, Watermill, Dybbuk, Antique Epigraphs, In Memory Of...His Broadway choreography is represented by selections from On the Town, The King and I, Peter Pan, West Side Story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
DVD, 130 min., 2009
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Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
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