The Sharks-v-Jets classic is told with Jerome Robbins’ ‘perfect’ moves, admits Aletta Collins. How did she create new ones?
Aletta Collins is telling me about what arrived in the post when she started her latest project. “A big parcel came and it was my vocal score for West Side Story,” she says. “But then there was this other score,” she mimes holding a weighty tome. “And I opened it and it was the choreography, this most beautiful book with absolutely every movement all written out and diagrams, so detailed and exact. Because everybody who does West Side Story uses the same choreography.
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