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Title Jerome Robbins : something to dance about / written by Amanda Vaill ; produced & directed by Judy Kinberg ; produced by Thirteen/WNET.

Publication Info. West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2009]

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 Moore Video  GV1785.R52 J47 2009    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (130, that is, 114 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
all regions
System Details DVD; NTSC; all regions.
Performer Narrator, Ron Rifkin.
Credits Director of photography Tom Hurwitz ; editors, Molly Bernstein, Girish Bhargava.
Event Originally broadcast on PBS on Feb. 18, 2009 as an episode of the television program American masters.
Note Dolby 2.0; anamorphic widescreen format.
Summary Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and others.
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 -- Pete 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.
Note Special feature: Bonus interviews.
Subject Robbins, Jerome.
Robbins, Jerome.
Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
Choreographers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Musical theater producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Musical theater producers and directors.
Ballet -- Production and direction -- United States.
Ballet -- Production and direction.
Dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Dance.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographical television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Biographies.
Added Author Vaill, Amanda, screenwriter.
Kinberg, Judy, director, producer.
Rifkin, Ron, narrator.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Kultur International Films.
Added Title Something to dance about
American masters (Television program)
ISBN 9780769788265
0769788262
Standard No. 032031445499
Music No. D4454 Kultur