Jazz Blog- 1st Year 2019/20 School Year
The first practitioner, which our jazz assessment piece, Bad Guy, is inspired by is Jerome Robbins. Robbins "is world-renowned for his work " (Jeromerobbins.org, n.d.) . "His broadway career is well represented by West Side Story (1957), a musical that transplants the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet to the gritty milieu of the rival street gangs in New York City.... and Fiddler on the Roof (1964)" (Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.). He also created many " ballets in a wide variety of styles..." and " continually explored new influences and ideas." (Davis, 2020). Jerome Robbins' choreography has many qualities that make it unique. One of these qualities of his work " is characterized by the intensity and compactness of its expression and its wide variety of mood" (Nycballet.com, n.d.), which is then reflected in the assessment piece, Bad Guy. The routine, Bad Guy, requires an intense evil and also demonic performance quality. Thi...