Now, on the eve of the 2008 Jerome Robbins Festival, two young dancers are doing their part to see that his legacy endures by turning one of Robbins's most accessible but least frequently performed ballets Â-- his 1958 "N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz" Â-- into a film, "Opus Jazz the Film." The project, an ambitious undertaking by two 26-year-old NYCB dancers, Sean Suozzi and Ellen Bar, marks the first dance film since Robbins's masterpiece "West Side Story" to be granted the support of the Jerome Robbins Trust. And it may show a new way to transmit and translate dance to a general audience.

Then, in June, New York City Ballet revives “Brahms/Handel,� the ballet she choreographed with Jerome Robbins in 1984 for the company. Not seen since 1991, this cascading dual-torrent ballet — its cast is divided into two separate troupes, each led by a virtuoso ballerina resplendent — used to seem like the only masterpiece created for City Ballet since the death of Balanchine. Here’s hoping it will be as ebullient again.

The 10th anniversary of Robbins’s death will prompt celebrations across the country and around the world: Robbins triple bills at San Francisco Ballet (March 8-19) and Pacific Northwest Ballet (May 29 to June 8); the Royal Ballet in London’s first revival of his “Dances at a Gathering� in more than 31 years; and, at New York City Ballet, a Robbins-based spring season featuring no fewer than 30 ballets, the largest-scale celebration anywhere of any single choreographer’s works other than City Ballet’s 1993 celebration of its founding maestro, George Balanchine.

According to a piece in Sunday's New York Times, NYCB will be reviving Brahms/Handel next year:



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Then, in June, New York City Ballet revives "Brahms/Handel,"� the ballet she choreographed with Jerome Robbins in 1984 for the company. Not seen since 1991, this cascading dual-torrent ballet "its cast is divided into two separate troupes, each led by a virtuoso ballerina resplendent" used to seem like the only masterpiece created for City Ballet since the death of Balanchine. Here's hoping it will be as ebullient again.