Opening Night Miniseries Part 2: Fancy Free
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Fort Wayne Ballet is getting ready to stage it's first big show of the 2023-24 season, entitled Opening Night!. In this three part series, Kinetic Conversations looks at each of the three ballets the company will be perform in the show - each with a nod to New York City.
In part two of our series, Jim interviews Robert LaFosse, repetiteur for Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free.\\xa0They discuss the history of the piece and Robbins' first collaboration with Leonard Bernstein in a partnership that would eventually lead to the making of West Side Story.
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