Jerome Robbins

Robbins, Jerome (1918–98), U.S. choreographer and director. He danced major roles with the American Ballet Theatre (1940–44), where he created his first ballet, Fancy Free (1944). With the New York City Ballet he was associate artistic director (1950–59), a ballet master after 1968, and from 1983 ballet master-in-chief (with Peter Martins). For motion pictures, television, and Broadway he choreographed and directed such productions as West Side Story (1957) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964).