biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1918–98)
|
| biography:
| Dancer and choreographer, born in New York City, USA. He studied ballet and modern dance, worked initially as an actor, then joined the American Ballet Theatre (1940). He became associate director then director of New York City Ballet (1949–59), and joint ballet master (1983–9). His collaboration with Leonard Bernstein resulted in his most famous musical, West Side Story (1957), for which he won two Oscars in the 1961 Hollywood version. Other Broadway successes included Gypsy (1959) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and later works include Watermill (1972), Glass Pieces (1983), and (with Mikhail Baryshnikov) A Suite of Dances (1994). Robbins shared the title of co-ballet master-in-chief (1983–9) of the New York City Ballet with Peter Martins. |
|
|
