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Robert La Fosse
Biography
Robert La Fosse was invited by Jerome Robbins to join the New York City Ballet in 1986 as a principal dancer after a nine-year career with American Ballet Theatre. At ABT, he danced leading roles in many of the full-length classics and appeared in works by Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Kenneth MacMillan, and Twyla Tharp. During his career with NYCB, La Fosse originated roles in Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story, Quiet City, and Piccolo. In addition, his repertory with NYCB has included such works as George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Orpheus, Agon, Donizetti Variations, Prodigal Son, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Union Jack, Vienna Waltzes, and Who Cares? and Robbins’s Interplay, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Other Dances, Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, The Four Seasons, The Goldberg Variations, I’m Old Fashioned, Opus 19/The Dreamer, and Watermill.
On the Broadway, La Fosse starred in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, for which he received a 1989 Tony Award® nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.
In addition to his performing career, La Fosse is also an established choreographer who has created over 100 works for ballet, opera, musical theater, film, and television.
He performs in the New York City Ballet’s annual production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker as Herr Drosselmeyer. He also stages Robbins’s ballets and Broadway dances throughout the world.