Lauryn Johnson

Footage from the American Musical Theater Archive 1986. Ann Reinking stars as Charity in the Broadway Revival. Ann Reinking (Charity), Mark Jacoby (Vittorio Vidal), Bebe Neuwirth (Nickie), Allison Williams (Helene), Carrie Nygren (Ursula), Irving Allen Lee (Daddy Johann Sebastian Brubeck) Quinn Baird, Christine Colby, Alice Everett Cox, Kim Morgan Greene, Jan Horvath, Jane Lanier, Fred C. Mann III, Tanis Michaels, Dana Moore, Allison Renee Manson, Michelle O’Steen, Kelly Patterson, Mimi...

Written by Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times , 1984: "What could any choreographer nowadays do with imagery of Ancient Greece that would not look like a cliché? Jerome Robbins supplied the answer at the State Theater with beauty and subtlety Thursday night in the world premiere of his "Antique Epigraphs" for the New York City Ballet. "Rarefied in tone but immediate in resonance, ‘Antique Epigraphs’ is, above all, a work rich in associations. Some of these pertaining to the music’s subtext,...

Jillana in Serenade. Photo by Martha Swope, 1959 Jillana in I Remember Balanchine : “My fondest memories are of Serenade. I loved doing the Dark Angel. Even though there was no real story in it, I always had a story. I would make up different ones when I danced it, and I danced all the parts from top to bottom. I would make up stories about being in love with Nicky Magallanes and trying to get him away from whoever the other girl was, pulling and pushing. I made it into a love story for...