Jerome Robbins

Apart from dancing, he assisted choreographer-directors such as Jerome Robbins and Michael Bennett; unusually, he also choreographed for films, including Scent of a Woman and One True Thing.

The Guardian World News 2009

Think dream ballets went out with the likes of Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille?

'Wind' energy powers musical Celia Wren 2011

When Jerome Robbins was rehearsing the cast of West Side Story for its 1957 premiere, he insisted that the actors playing the Sharks and the Jets not socialize with members of the opposing gang offstage in order to keep the intensity of their rivalry real onstage.

George Heymont: Girls on Top George Heymont 2012

Screenwriter Ernest Lehman did all sorts of research until Jerome Robbins teased him that they weren't making a documentary here.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set Michael Giltz 2011

Jerome Robbins' choreography for "Cool" is famously athletic and technically demanding.

Glee's Harry Shum on Mike's Asian Anger, "Cool" Moves and Solo Singing Debut 2011

The centrepiece of it all is Jerome Robbins's In The Night, a setting of Chopin's Nocturnes that evokes the swirls and eddies of passion in three different love affairs.

This week's new dance 2011

And while energetic Andrew Veyette portrayed the beleaguered husband in Jerome Robbins's "The Concert" 1956 with real humor and subtlety of timing, his overly brash account of the virtuoso demands of Balanchine's "Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux" pummeled the choreography's classical niceties.

With Little to Cheer Besides Balanchine Robert Greskovic 2012

"A lamppost with feet and teeth," the choreographer Jerome Robbins called him.

An American Apollo Laura Jacobs 2011

Jerome Robbins choreographed his "Afternoon of a Faun," inspired by the sight of her warming up in a dance studio.

Debra Levine: George Balanchine's Funny Valentine Debra Levine 2011

Among his wide circle of friends were such theatrical luminaries as Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jerome Robbins.

Screen Star Showed Independent Streak Stephen Miller 2011