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Boston Ballet is on the town again with Jerome Robbins

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 06, 2012

Few would dispute that Jerome Robbins was one of the great theater directors and choreographers of the 20th century. But in ballet, Robbins’s choreography always seemed to exist in George Balanchine’s shadow. Perhaps that has started to change. Robbins’s status has definitely risen recently at Boston Ballet, where his “Fancy Free” is the title dance in a three-piece program that begins Thursday.

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