Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998.(Obituary) New Criterion | September 1, 1998| | COPYRIGHT 1998 Foundation for Cultural Review. 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. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

When Jerome Robbins died on July 29, 1998, at the age of seventy-nine, the world lost not one choreographer, but two. One of these choreographers was a genius.

This was the Jerome Robbins who choreographed thirteen Broadway shows--legend among them On the Town, The King and I, Peter Pan, Gypsy, and Fiddler on the Roof. This was the Robbins who conceived, directed, and choreographed West Side Story, the musical and film phenomenon that had every baby-boomer boy in America attempting that chesty Jets leap, that T (for testosterone) in the air. And this was the Robbins ...

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