This spring New York City Ballet will celebrate Jerome Robbins, the groundbreaking choreographer and director who transformed American musical theater, and who also made NYCB his artistic home for nearly 40 years.
The Jerome Robbins Celebration, which will mark the 90th anniversary of the choreographer’s birth in 1918, will take place at the New York State Theater from April 29 through June 29, 2008, and will feature 33 ballets that Robbins created over a span of more than 50 years.
Highlights of the celebration, which will focus on Robbins’ work for the ballet stage, will include an historic recreation of his original 1965 staging of Les Noces, as well his 1983 collaboration with Twyla Tharp, Brahms/Handel, which has not been performed since 1991.
The celebration will feature ten all-Robbins programs, each showcasing a different aspect of the choreographer’s work.
The three all-Robbins programs that take place during our visit are:
Saturday June 21 at 2 pm
Sunday June 22 at 3 pm
Wednesday June 25 at 7:30 pm
Performances are at the New York State Theater which is a traditional proscenium theater with seating for 2,755. It is part of New York’s famed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex, the theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall. The New York State Theater is home to both New York City Ballet and New York City Opera.
