Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and television. His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director.
Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces, and Ives, Songs, which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other major dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996).
In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story, Mr. Robbins has received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, an Emmy Award, the Screen Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Mr. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur. Mr. Robbins died in 1998.
The list of ballets licensed by MTI include:
- 2 & 3 Part Inventions
- 3x3
- A Sketch Book
- A Suite of Dances
- Afternoon of a Faun
- Afterthought
- Age of Anxiety
- Allegro Con Grazia
- An Evening's Waltzes
- Andantino
- Antique Epigraphs
- Ballade
- Brahms/Handel*
- Brandenburg
- Celebration: Art of the Pas De Deux
- Chansons Madecasses
- Circus Polka
- Concertino
- Dances at a Gathering
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Dybbuk
- Eight Lines
- Events
- Facsimile
- Fancy Free
- Fanfare
- Firebird
- Four Bagatelles (Beethoven p.d.d.)
- Four Chamber Works
- Gershwin Concerto
- Glass Pieces
- I'm Old Fashioned
- In G Major / En Sol
- In the Night
- In Memory Of...
- Interplay
- Introduction and Allegro for Harp
- Ives, Songs
- Jones Beach
- Les Noces
- Mother Goose
- Moves
- N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz
- Opus 19, "The Dreamer"
- Other Dances
- Pas de Trois
- Piano Pieces
- Piccolo Balletto
- Pied Piper
- Pulcinella
- Quartet
- Quiet City
- Requiem Canticles
- Rondo
- Scherzo Fantastique
- Something to Dance About, Jerome Robbins Broadway at the Ballet**
- Summer Day
- The Cage
- The Concert
- The Four Seasons
- The Goldberg Variations
- The Guests
- Tricolore
- Une Barque sur l'Ocean
- Watermill
- West Side Story Suite
*Collaboration with Twyla Tharp
** Choreography Jerome Robbins, direction and musical staging by Warren Carlyle
Learn more about Jerome Robbins and the Jerome Robbins Foundation here.