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Jean-Pierre Frohlich, an assistant ballet master who has worked with Robbins often, says that to make the dancers think in terms of character, Robbins had them construct a biography for each one. The women reveled in the costumes. At rehearsal, they twirled around in the swing skirts popular in the '50s, getting the feel of cinched waists and ruffles-very different from the Ts and minis of today...
...brought him fame in 1944. The story of three cavorting sailors on leave during World War II, it does for Manhattan street life of the '40s what West Side does for the '50s. Or so it should. City Ballet Classicists Peter Martins, Bart Cook and Jean-Pierre Frohlich are not yet at home in the piece's romantic flourishes of period dance idiom...
Screenplay by Peter Marthesheimer and Pia Frohlich...
Fall is a gaudy, abandoned bacchanal starring Patricia McBride, Jean-Pierre Frohlich and Baryshnikov in the first role created for him since he joined City Ballet. He is the scarlet king of the revelers. He swivels into furious spins, only to leap high - and go right on whirling again. It is an audacious, fiendishly difficult cadenza on the pirouette. In other spins he slows down suddenly, as if sinking into his own momentum. For sheer bravura, the high light is a series of leaps that resemble a broad jumper's hitch kick. He kicks into the air with...
Q.E.D. In San Francisco, the Traffic Fines Bureau received Howard Frohlich's $2 parking tag in an envelope along with: a 20? dividend check from one share of Pan American World Airways stock, a state expense check for $1.35. and a 40? stockbroker's refund check, all made out to Frohlich and endorsed to the bureau, totaled it up to $1.95, looked again, found his personal check...