"It makes the dance even more accessible ... Major funding for NY Export: Opus Jazz was also provided by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Emily Blavatnik, Chandra Jessee, Gillian Attfield, Arlene ...

A 1958 Jerome Robbins ballet, which astutely captured the essence of that moment’s younger generation, has been transformed into a highly contemporary dance film ... Opus Jazz” on the heels ...

DANCE DANCE EVOLUTION: NY Export: Opus Jazz is a rebooting of Jerome Robbins’s “sneaker ballet” in a film that’s part documentary, part performance. The piece, the brainchild of New York ...

Jerome Wilson ... the way we dance today, and how we are?” Recruiting an unknown young American composer named Leonard Bernstein to write a score, he concocted Fancy Free, a jazz-inflected ...

"West Side Story" choreographer Justin Peck pays homage to Jerome ... dance change with the times, Peck retains many of Robbins’ actual steps. Even more so, he works in the big, high-spirited ...

New York City Ballet marked the centennial of its cofounding choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome ... noted that Robbins, “really created the American style of dance.

Dancer-turned-filmmaker Khadifa Wong's debut documentary, 'Uprooted,' explores the history and evolution of jazz dance ... such giants as Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Jack Cole — and then ...

Earlier this summer, a group of about 25 dance educators gathered in Manhattan for a workshop based on an unusual new subject: Jerome Robbins's 1958 work "NY Export: Opus Jazz," once dubbed a ...