Jerome Robbins
Subtitle: something to dance about
By: written by Amanda Vaill ; produced & directed by Judy Kinberg ; produced by Thirteen/WNET
Contributors: Rifkin, Ron, narrator; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Kultur International Films
Edition: Anamorphic widescreen.
Publisher: Kultur
Published: 2009
Place of publication: West Long Branch, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780769788265
Subjects: Ballet; Dance; Production and direction; Musical theater producers and directors; Choreographers; Biography; History
Other titles: Something to dance about; American masters (Television program)
Description: Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and others.
Notes: Special feature: Bonus interviews.

Director of photography Tom Hurwitz ; editors, Molly Bernstein, Girish Bhargava.

Narrator, Ron Rifkin.

Originally broadcast on PBS on Feb. 18, 2009 as an episode of the television program American masters.

DVD; NTSC; all regions; Dolby 2.0.
Table of contents: title: Jerome Rabinowitz; title: Life-changing revelations; title: Camp Tamiment; title: Ballet Theatre; title: Fancy free; title: On the town; title: The playful side and the darker side; title: Love and loss; title: Autobiographical material; title: Broadway's rising star; title: Balanchine and the New York City Ballet; title: The king and I; title: The House Un-American Activities Committee; title: Robbins' muse, Tanaquil Le Clercq; title: Pete Pan; title: West Side story; title: Ballets U.S.A.; title: Gypsy; title: Challenges and fixes; title: Fiddler on the roof; title: Les noces; title: Dances at a gathering; title: The Goldberg variations; title: Watermill; title: Robbins and Balanchine; title: Dybbuk; title: Other dances; title: Glass pieces and Antique epigraphs; title: In memory of; title: Jerome Robbins' Broadway; title: Dancing until the end.