Twenty-six former and current performers with the New York City Ballet who worked with the choreographer Jerome Robbins will share this year’s award for excellence in dance from his foundation.
The Jerome Robbins Awards are to be presented by Chita Rivera, who collaborated with Robbins on the original production of “West Side Story.”
Robbins, who died in 1998, established his foundation in 1970 to support all aspects of dance and theater. Past recipients have usually been individuals, including the lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, the director Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The ceremony will be hosted by New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater on September 30. – NYTimes.com
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.
