Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

WENDY LESSER ON JEROME ROBBINS

A CONVERSATION WITH EMILY COATES, KAY MAZZO,
AND EDWARD VILLELLA

EVENT RESCHEDULED!
NEW DATE:
Tuesday, November 27 at 7:30 PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
450 West 37th Street
New York City
Critic, writer, and editor  Wendy Lesser guides a conversation about the work and life of
Jerome Robbins. She is joined by  Emily Coates, Kay Mazzo , and Edward Villella —dancers who all worked with Robbins at different points of his career. The discussion is free and open to the public but reservations are required . The event is in conjunction with the release of Lesser's book published
by Yale University Press:  Jerome Robbins, A Life in Dance , a lively and inspired biography celebrating
the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director.

646-731-3200

Wendy Lesser
Yale University Press
Jewish Lives series
ISBN 978-0-300-19759-4 $25
Pub date: October 2018


“A compact and incisive portrait of the great dancer and choreographer. A breezy and inviting biography.

Kirkus Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Lesser, the founding and current editor of  The Threepenny Review, is the author of eleven nonfiction books and one novel. Her new book is a biography of Jerome Robbins in the Yale Jewish Lives series.

Her latest, before that, was the prizewinning  You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn , published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2017. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and many other institutions, and she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Her journalistic writing about literature, dance, film, and music has appeared in a number of periodicals in America and abroad. Born in California and educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and UC Berkeley, Lesser now divides her time between Berkeley and New York.