"I'm tired," complains Choreographer Jerome Robbins, "of seeing bad Robbins." He has a case: no other U.S.-born choreographer is more widelyor ineptly copied in Europe, where even bad Robbins is good box office. But Robbins' competition (most notably Maurice Béjart's company) will have a tough time copying, ineptly or otherwise, the ballet he produced at the Spoleto Festival last week. A plotless work designed to have, according to Robbins, "the total effect of reading the morning paper," Events adds new luster to the career of a man who, from Fancy Free to...
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