Reclaiming 'The Dybbuk'

From: Forward | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Carman, Joseph
Forward
04-01-2005
In 1974 Jerome Robbins premiered an enigmatic choreographic work, "The
Dybbuk," for New York City Ballet. A collaboration with Leonard Bernstein,
it was based loosely on the play of the same name by S. Ansky about spirit
possession and exorcism. On April 5 at the War Memorial Opera House, San
Francisco Ballet will revive the ballet, which has not been danced for a
quarter of a century.

Robbins was long obsessed with the idea of creating a ballet based on the
idea of the dybbuk, a spirit of a dead person who enters the body of a
living human. "Dybbuk, Dybbuk, ...

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