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Mon May 7, 2018, 09:37 AM May 2018

City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms

'For almost 50 years, the choreographer Jerome Robbins made works for New York City Ballet. Now that his centennial is upon us, the company is celebrating with a flood of Robbins revivals this May.

There will be 20, but this is actually too few. (In 2008, the company staged 33.) Still, the celebration also includes new Robbins-inspired productions by post-Robbins choreographers; two of them had their premieres on Thursday at the company’s gala, “Robbins 100,” alongside three Robbins revivals. The first was Justin Peck’s “Easy,” to jazz-style music (“Prelude, Fugue and Riffs”) by Robbins’s long-term colleague, Leonard Bernstein. T he second, “Something to Dance About,” compiled and rearranged numbers from Robbins’s choreography for Broadway musicals, with direction and musical staging by Warren Carlyle.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/arts/review-new-york-city-ballet-spring-gala-jerome-robbins.html?

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