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NEWS from the JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION VOL. 6, NO. 2 (2019) “Watching the World Pass By…” (Some Jerome Robbins Traveling Notes) NEWS FROM THE JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION VOL. 6, NO. 2 (2019) “Watching the world pass by…” (some Jerome Robbins traveling notes) In this summer issue of Jerome Robbins, we offer a sample of the many written notes Robbins kept during his travels. From a letter home during one of his first trips out of the country, to artistic opinions formed as a result of his voyages, to an inward contemplation on the possible purpose for travel… Mexico City, 1941 Zurich, July 1952 One of the things that I take particular delight in is riding the buses to work [New York City Ballet made its debut in continental Europe with a five-month everyday. It’s like being a kid again. You can hold on to the running board and tour, participating in festivals in several cities, including Lausanne and Zurich, hang way out over the street and watch the buildings and people fly past, and Switzerland.] nobody says, “How childish!” This is all for ten centavos or two cents. If you Just a note between rehearsals. We’ve already played Lausanne which was think that the subways in N.Y. are crowded at rush hour, baby you should see very, very beautiful, and was a great success. Our houses have been sold out all what those buses look like all day. You’ve got to catch them on the fly and get off over. The Cage made the front page of the Lausanne entertainment paper even them on the run, and brother help you if you don’t have both hands free to hold though we didn’t play it there, but because so much had been heard about it. on with. Before you get on, pack anything loose away into your pockets. See In Lausanne I met a very wonderful Swiss family, who entertained me royally. the bus coming around the corner of the Square. On your mark, get set, go! It They took me motoring and on the lake, and to Geneva and Montreux, and all in slows down about ½ kilometer and you look to see which door looks the least all it was a nice stay. Now we are in Zurich for a few days. I’m not dancing here crowded. Anyway, get close ’cause if you miss the first, you have to grab at the and so have it much easier. It’s very warm, and this afternoon I’ll go sunbathing second. Even now people are standing on the outer edge of the running board, on the lake. Next week back to Paris, for 2½ weeks, then to Holland (we’re not the upper part of their bodies hanging way out over the street. But don’t let that going to Brussels) and then the company goes to England. I’m not going with worry you. You see three spare inches of running board not in use and get your them — as a matter of fact I’m not sure where or what I will do from there. The next foot on it. “Vámanos,” yells the conductor (“Let’s go!”) and you’re off. Now the time I must be with them is in Edinburgh at the end of August. And now it looks idea is to get the rest of your weight on the bus while it’s already in motion. The as if the tour is to be extended a month to include Milan and Berlin. But I’m not conductor takes it for granted you’ll make it and never bothers to see if you do or sure if I’m continuing. don’t. Grab hold of the rail that runs around the window edge if there’s nothing else and hold tight. Where do you put the other foot? Oh don’t bother about it, just let it hang. If the one you’re standing on gets tired, just change feet. The London, September 1970 buses go so fast you don’t have to worry. As you are flying along, and believe me these cars go like hell, a taxi will pass you with some obvious tourist in it. They will [The Contractor, by David Storey, is a play written in 1970 about the raising of look at you and say, “Poor people, ugh, how disgusting, so crowded.” To which a tent for a wedding on an English estate.] you smile back and change your feet. Now we are near where we have to get off. The trouble is that what we take for models of good acting in the States is so Better set yourself again. You don’t have a free hand to reach the bell inside the poor, cheap and inhuman compared to the playing one sees here in London car if you could reach it (which you can’t) and you hope someone else wants to that the course we set for ourselves as performers is already headed in terrible get off on the same corner. No? Well here we go. As the bus nears the chosen directions. After seeing “The Contractor” last night I don’t think it is easy to direct corner, hop off, and away, from the bus and start running in the same direction. in London. The actors were so incredible that I’m sure if anything goes wrong, You will anyway, so you just might as well do it. Also it will save you from falling it must be the director’s fault. This thrilling experience of being so moved is not flat on your nose. When you go past your corner on the fly you can start to slow the first of its kind for me here. Each time I visit London I see at least one or two down to a trot, then to a gallop, and then to a jog, and then to a walk. Now you plays that restore me with incredible love and belief in humans and their valiant can stop and sit down on the nearest bench and catch your breath. When you and unselfish struggles with their pains. All onstage love their profession, each feel better, get up and come on home. other and, most of all, the human being. They are devoted to the play and being in its circumstances, and the innate tenderness and frail fierceness (yes, coming Acapulco, 1941 even close to murder) makes one weep for the efforts not to go berserk. I can’t say it right, except perhaps there is such TRUST in one’s self, the play, and in the I have just come back from the most marvelous vacation that I have ever had the other actors, and faith in the system of theater — or the ritual of theater — or that pleasure to enjoy. I have never in my life been so thrilled by a place in my life. I what they are doing helps the spectator to go on with living. went to Acapulco at last, and boy, it was worth waiting to get there. We finished rehearsals Thursday night and left Mexico City about ten thirty or later. And we drove all night thru the mountains and curving around and down them, ‘til finally Israel, March 1971 at about dawn we reached the Pacific. God what a glorious sight to see just Up at 8 into Arab cabs and off to Masada. Over extraordinary terrain and gravel at daybreak. Acapulco is like the Riviera or Biarritz or any of the wonderful sea roads to Kidron Valley. There we picked up some fruit and went on. Finally got resorts in the South of France… Our hotel was up on a huge cliff right over the out of car and walked over to the gorge and along rocky road. Dogs barked at sea. And down below, the surf smashed against the rocks and roared all day Arab shepherds as we got to the monastery. At the monastery an old little monk and night… and the sun was very nice to us and stayed out for the whole three looking like a puppet found us an entrance. Long pantomime in 3 languages of days. And I swam, and learned to ride the surf into the shore… so well, in fact, how it is closed — they are praying, etc. 2 Arab children pointed at my watch and that twice it threw me up on the beach and I scratched my chest. And if you are described the handle going around 1½ times. It was 11. We understood at 12:30 thirsty while sunning yourself, you can call one of the little boys and he runs off it would be open. So we took off and climbed down into the gorge, past caves and soon brings you back a coconut with the top sliced off and a couple of straws and open arches of limestone that circled above our heads. Down we scrambled stuck in for you to drink the cool milk. to the river, which roared and foamed and was dirty, bringing with it the sand 2 NEWS FROM THE JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION and dirt of the valley above. The sun was burning and I tied a bandana over my head. We went downstream, spotting caves above and finally came to a place where rain waters had made a series of pools — worn the rocks smooth. A ravine of immense size, full of natural drains from pool to pool. High up in the middle of the cliff had been an Arab house — how to get there? Then we start back and get there at 12:30 and are let in.
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