Thursday, February 19, 2009

Chopin and Jerome Robbins

Second only to Balanchine

Broadway musicals and classical ballet, Jerome Robbins did it all. He was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz, and picked up dance when his sister started to learn the art. Some of his well-known Broadway choreographies include West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I.

He also did many classical and modern dance pieces, working closely with Balanchine for many years.

Here is a youtube of the third Pas de Deux from In the Night, with Chopin's Nocturne, op. 55, no. 2. Performed by the Paris Opera Ballet's Aurélie Dupont and Laurent Hilaire.