ROBBINS WILL NAMES A COMMITTEE TO DETERMINE RIGHTS TO HIS BALLETS.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--The fate of the ballets of Jerome Robbins Noun 1. Jerome Robbins - United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998) Robbins will rest in the hands of an advisory committee, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the choreographer's last will and testament. At Robbins's written request, the six-member committee, comprised of Victor Castelli, Susan Hendl, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Ellen Sorrin, William Earle William Earle can refer to the following people:
Unlike George Balanchine, who willed selected ballets to particular dancers associated with them, Robbins made no such mentions. "He has appointed a committee and the committee has already planned meetings," says Sorrin, director of education at New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. . Robbins, who died July 29, 1998, has provided an annual stipend for the committee members, and medical funding should any of the members become ill. The income from performances of his ballets has been allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. to a number of friends, relatives, and foundations under Robbins's auspices. The committee will also oversee any materials relating directly to his ballets, including manuscripts, books, letters, notes, documents, photographs, and diaries. In addition, the committee has the right to appoint new members should the willed members die, resign, or fail to serve. According to the will, the committee will report to the trustees, Floria V. Lasky and Allen Greenberg. Lasky, a coexecutor of the will, is a lawyer who represented Robbins for a period of more than thirty-five years. "They [the committee] are going to make a recommendation to the trust," says Lasky. "He [Robbins] wanted ballet experts to know and recommend what companies should get his ballets." Greenberg, a coexecutor of the will and a financial advisor to Mr. Robbins and friend of twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. , says it is too early to tell how the committee will operate in allowing dance companies access to Robbins's work. "We haven't come up with a specific guideline but the key is to continue what Mr. Robbins himself was doing." Requirements of companies wishing to use a Robbins ballet have yet to be decided, as has the cost to companies. Daniel Stern, longtime friend of Mr. Robbins who has been designated as first successor to the trustees, will be overseeing the rights of each of the ballets in a trust to be set up this year. Other willed items include the dance books in Mr. Robbins's personal library, which will go to The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. . The Jerome Robbins Collection, as it will be known, will include manuscripts, scrapbooks, papers, notes, scripts, and correspondence relating to publicly produced plays and ballets. |
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