THE LEGACY OF THE DANCE MASTER JEROME ROBBINS

From: Humanities | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

CHOREOGRAPHER Jerome Robbins put dance at the center of the American musical. When Agnes De Mille choreographed Oklahoma! in 1943, she revolutionized musical theater by making ballet and modern dance part of the character and plot development. Yet even in the show's dream ballet, the scene is set apart from the environment the characters live in, and stand-in dancers perform their roles. Robbins, who learned from De Mille as a dancer in Oklahoma!, would go on to make musicals where the leads danced and sang and acted, and the dancing moved the plot as much as the lyrics.

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