Somewhere : the life of Jerome Robbins / Amanda Vaill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaill, Amanda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robbins, Jerome.

Choreographers--United States--Biography.

Choreographers.

Dance.

History.

United States.

Dance--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

675 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, [2006]

Contents:

1 "It was all lovely" 5

2 "I could see light where the world opened up" 17

3 "I knew you'd be all right" 29

4 Romping with the Muses 44

5 "The boy who could count anything" 58

6 "Like a real dream coming true" 72

7 "Ten degrees north of terrific" 83

8 "Lucky to be me" 102

9 "We didn't know who we were then" 116

10 Something lovely he has wanted very much" 133

11 Age of Anxiety 155

12 "Maybe the splits & seams in me are coming together" 174

13 "Going thru a great reshuffling" 192

14 "Work, and effort and technique (and on my part a hell of a lot of agony)" 208

15 "Second star to the right" 224

16 "A much more noble thing" 249

17 "The true gesture" 274

18 "Typical American kids dancing" 293

19 "The man behind the gun" 320

20 "A whole vast intricate merciless industry and business" 337

21 "Any man who can do that, I forgive everything" 360

22 "Only the mask" 380

23 "Everything is going to change" 404

24 "My mind blew open" 428

25 "A new Now" 453

26 "In Memory Of..." 482

27 "One more dance" 508.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [643]-647) and index.

ISBN:

0767904206

9780767904209

OCLC:

70265635

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