The Joint is Jumping

The Joint is Jumping

Photograph

Ernst Haas

Maker
American, b. Austria, 1921–1986

The Joint is Jumping

Ballet–From Grand Jete to Jive


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16 × 23.8 cm (6 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Paper: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0045
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: (Ballet) 8/61 (16): THE JOINT IS JUMPING: For his ballet/musical, West / Side Story [titled underlined], Jerome Robbins harnessed and stylized / the syncopation of jitterbugging, much as Russian / choreographers drew inspiration from Czarist aristo- / cracy in their choreography of Tschaikovsky's [sic] / Nutcracker Suite. [title underlined] / Credit: ERNST HAAS c 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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