PIONEER BEHIND JOFFREY BALLET RESHAPED FACE OF AMERICAN DANCE WELL-RESEARCHED BOOK CHRONICLES LIFE, PASSION OF ROBERT JOFFREY.(Entertainment) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: December 23, 1996| Author: Campbell, R.M. | COPYRIGHT 1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. 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

A product of the Old World of Afghanistan as much as the New World of Seattle, Robert Joffrey grew up to be one of the primary forces in the development of dance in this country.

Against all odds, this first-generation American created a ballet company that coupled European tradition and American eclecticism in ways no one else ever considered, introduced ballet to thousands of people and was an ardent and forthright spokesman for artists and his chosen art form.