Today, I had the good pleasure to enjoy an exhibit at The New York Public Library with some friends of mine who used to be my professors during my first degree. Peggy and David always contact me to see them when they come to town and I’m always delighted too. The exhibit is called “Voice of my City: Jerome Robbins and New York.”
We spent two hours there. Jerome Robbins’ choreography played a big part of my upbringing. One of my favorite musicals that I’ve ever been in was West Side Story, I wrote a paper on dream ballets featuring Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins and then I studied modern dance and ballet in college, some of it his! Fancy Free, Glass Pieces and so much more. There were drawings, excerpts from his diaries, letters, videos of different performances, costumes… it was really lovely.
But what was even better was listening to the kids learn about dance history. Kids who didn’t know what West Side Story was watched the Prologue in awe, asking questions and wanting to see more. Taking photos in dance poses around the exhibit. Some may not agree with me, but that’s an important part of not just my history, but our history.
If you can check it out, I thoroughly recommend it.
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