In 1943, two 25 year olds — Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein — were about to rock the ballet world. The dance they collaborated on was Fancy Free — about three sailors in a bar, trying to meet ...

Wendy Lesser, in her well-researched analysis of Jerome Robbins, writes in her introduction, "He may well have been the most hated man on Broadway. 'Mean as a snake,' said Helen Gallaher, a performer ...

There has not been a more entertaining evening in the Opera House for years than last week's Jerome Robbins show danced by the San Francisco Ballet. A mixed bill with a serious piece, a scandalous, ...

Dancers gradually donned or discarded the ruffles, flounces, doublets and knee breeches that allude to a bygone era in which ...

Los Angeles Opera opens James Conlon's final season as music director with 'West Side Story' in Francesca Zambello's well-traveled production.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

NEW YORK — Sometime in the early 1940s, before he became the choreographer who shaped American movement, Jerome Robbins made a little home movie on a New York rooftop. He’s goofing around, trying out ...

A triple bill can be anything as long as it’s three things, each done and dusted in one act. It’s tempting, though, to look for a unifying idea.

If a ballet doesn’t have an enchanted swan, or a sleeping princess, or a mechanical woman, what is it about? Friday afternoon at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the New York City Ballet proposed ...