DANCERS AT A GATHERING.(history of Dances at a Gathering by Jerome Robbins)(Excerpt)(Interview)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: KENT, ALLEGRA | Copyright information

This month the New York City Ballet is reviving Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering (1969), a twentieth-century masterpiece that has acquired a certain mystique. Deborah Jowitt wrote in her Village Voice review that it was "so eloquent, so true to itself that the critical eye is confounded." The success of the ballet seems to depend equally on Robbins's bountiful inventiveness, Chopin's meltingly beautiful music and the poetic dancing.

When he started working on the ...

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