Classics With Cartwheels.(choreography of Jerome Robbins)(Brief Article) From: Newsweek | Date: August 10, 1998| Author: Shapiro, Laura | COPYRIGHT 1998 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998

A one-act version of "Swan Lake" came first on the program; later came the pas de deux from "Nutcracker." The steps, the costumes, the music, the sensibility--everything at Ballet Theater that night would have been perfectly at home in tsarist Russia. But this was New York, it was 1944, and when the curtain finally went up on "Fancy Free," classical ballet sprang into the New World with cartwheels. Literally. Three jaunty sailors took ...

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