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| Genre/Form: | Biographical television programs Documentary television programs Nonfiction television programs Television programs Interviews Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jerome Robbins; Jerome Robbins |
| Material Type: | Videorecording, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Visual material, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Amanda Vaill; Judy Kinberg; Ron Rifkin; Educational Broadcasting Corporation.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Kultur International Films. |
| ISBN: | 0769788262 9780769788265 |
| OCLC Number: | 311097187 |
| Notes: | Special feature: Bonus interviews (17 min.). |
| Credits: | Self-portraits and journal artwork by Jerome Robbins ; editors, Molly Bernstein, Girish Bhargava ; director of photography Tom Hurwitz ; researcher, Barbara Whipple ; advisors, Dwight Blocker Bowers, William Earle, Doborah Jowitt, Robert Gottlieb, Stephen Whitfield. |
| Performer(s): | Narrator, Ron Rifkin; interviewees, Deborah Jowitt, Ruthanna Boris, Arthur Laurents, Donald Saddler, Robert Gottlieb, Helen Gallagher, Stephen Whitfield, Sono Osato, Sondra Lee, James Mitchell, Rose Tobias Shaw, Nanette Fabray, Jacques D'Amboise, Peter Martins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yuriko, Rita Moreno, Floria Lasky, Madeline Lee Gilford, Barbara Horgan, Stephen Sondheim, Frank Rich, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Tony Mordente, Grover Dale, Gerald Freedman, Eliot Feld, John Kander, Lane Bradbury, Austin Pendleton, Tony Walton, Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Barry Primus, Patricia McBride, Violette Verdy, Suzanne Farrell, Susan Hendl, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Christine Redpath, Bart Cook, Maria Calegari, Jennifer Tipton, Santo Loquasto, Gerald Schoenfeld, Charlotte D'Amboise. |
| Production notes: | Produced in 2008 and originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television program American Masters on February 18, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (130 min. [i.e. 114 min.]) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo; anamorphic wide screen presentation, 16:9 aspect ratio. |
| Contents: | Jerome Rabinowitz -- Life-changing revelations -- Camp Tamiment -- Ballet Theatre -- Fancy Free -- On the Town -- The playful side and the darker side -- Love and loss -- Autobiographical material -- Broadway's rising star -- Balanchine and the New York City Ballet -- The King and I -- The House Un-American Activities Committee -- Robbins' muse, Tanaquil Le Clercq -- Peter Pan -- West Side Story -- Ballets U.S.A. -- Gypsy -- Challenges and fixes -- Fiddler On the Roof -- Les Noces -- Dances at a Gathering -- The Goldberg variations -- Watermill -- Robbins and Balanchine -- Dybbuk -- Other dances -- Glass Pieces and Antique Epigraphs -- In memory of-- -- Jerome Robbins' Broadway -- Dancing until the end. |
| Other Titles: | American masters (Television program). Jerome Robbins Something to dance about American masters (Television program) |
| Responsibility: | written by Amanda Vaill ; produced & directed by Judy Kinberg ; produced by Thirteen/WNET. |
Abstract:
No other creative figure of the latter twentieth century was as contradictory as Jerome Robbins, and few were as controversial. Theater producer, director, and choreographer, he was a master of the Broadway musical, transforming its possibilities with such works as West Side Story, Gypsy, and Peter Pan, and was one of the greatest ballet choreographers this country has ever produced. Robbins was a five time Tony Award winner, recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and one of only six directors who won the Academy Award for Best Director for a film debut. This documentary features excerpts from his personal journals, archival performance footage, and never-before-seen rehearsal recordings, as well as interviews with Robbins himself and over forty witnesses to his extraordinary life and career.
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