Jerome Robbins (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Deborah Jowitt
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1918-1998
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, Lincoln Kirstein, Stephen Sondheim
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, New York City, Dancing or dancers, Theater, Ballet or ballet dancers, Performing arts
- Locales: New York, NY
In her exquisite biography of Jerome Robbins, Deborah Jowitt successfully combines a popular, readable, intelligible style with uncompromising scholarship. Jowitt sports unquestioned credentials in the dance world, which make her a reliable source of insight into Robbins's dance. She is a former dancer who began her professional career in 1953; the principal dance critic for The Village Voice since 1967; the author of a prizewinning and widely used textbook, Time and the Dancing Image (1988); and a member of the dance faculty at New York University's Tisch School of the...
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