The Choreographer Speaks

Jerome Robbins, by Himself, edited by Amanda Vaill. Knopf, 2019, $40.00 cloth.

AMANDA VAILL has written on other subjects, but for more than fifteen years she has circled back, again and again, to the choreographer and director Jerome Robbins. In 2006 there was , a big biography. In 2009 came the award-winning , a documentary she wrote about Robbins’s life and work, part of the PBS American Masters series. And now, in 2019, we have , a 430-page