The Jerome Robbins Foundation has announced the first Jerome Robbins Prize for Excellence in the Dance Arts. (People and Companies).The 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 Foundation has announced the first JEROME ROBBINS PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE DANCE ARTS. The honorees, each to receive a $100,000 award, are lighting designer JENNIFER TIPTON and the 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. . The company will dance an all-Robbins program after the January 16 award ceremony at the New York State Theater The New York State Theater is part of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall (home of the New . |
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