MASTERCLASS SERIES: ROBERT LAFOSSE

SCHEDULE 
9:45-11:15 ballet class
11:30-12:30 repertory class with choreography Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story

Audience observation tickets are available to all ages.
Repertory classes are open to any ballet student age 13 to 21 with an intermediate to advanced level of training. Class size is limited so please register early.

ABOUT ROBERT LAFOSSE: REPETITEUR, JEROME ROBBINS TRUST. FORMER PRINCIPAL DANCER, NEW YORK BALLET AND AMERICAN BALLET THEATER.

Mr. La Fosse joined New York City Ballet in 1986 as a principal dancer after a nine-year career with American Ballet Theatre, which he joined in 1977. During his career with NYCB, Mr. La Fosse originated roles in Jerome Robbins’ Quiet City, Piccolo Balletto and West Side Story Suite, Peter Martins’ A Fool for You and Tea Rose, and in Susan Stroman’s “Blossom Got Kissed” from Duke!

His enormous repertory with NYCB has included such works as George Balanchine’s Nutcracker, Coppélia, Orpheus, Agon, Donizetti Variations, Prodigal Son, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Union Jack, Vienna Waltzes, and Who Cares?; and Mr. Robbins’ Interplay, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Other Dances, Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, The Four Seasons, The Goldberg Variations, I’m Old Fashioned, Opus 19/The Dreamer, and Watermill.

For the Broadway stage, Mr. La Fosse starred in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, for which he received a 1989 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

In addition to his performing career, Mr. La Fosse is also an established choreographer who has created over 100 works for ballet, opera, musical theater, film and television.

In the past he has taught at New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, The Julliard School, Princeton University, SUNY Purchase and Barnard College.

Presently, he stages the ballets and theater choreography of Jerome Robbins throughout the world.

SCHEDULE 
9:45-11:15 ballet class
11:30-12:30 repertory class with choreography Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story

Audience observation tickets are available to all ages.
Repertory classes are open to any ballet student age 13 to 21 with an intermediate to advanced level of training. Class size is limited so please register early.