"West Side Story" choreographer Justin Peck reveals how he updated Jerome Robbins ... “In ‘America,’ there’s this moment where the women flare their skirts in a very unique way that honors ...

The game has continued for over 40 years, with a big part of this West Side tradition being that all participants dress up as famous female celebrities or characters.

Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!" Culture. Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir.

In ‘West Side Story,’ My Mother Saw a Latina Who Could Dance Her Way Out of Any Script. May 11, 2024. Video. ... how to move until the skirts of our dresses achieve liftoff, ...

The legendary musical West Side Story has been transformed in a daring new Broadway revival from director Ivo Van Hove Dave Quinn is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand ...

Some residents complained the West Side tradition was 'transphobic' and demeaning to women, but the Skirt Game played on Friday night. Local News Sports Opinion NKY Things To Do Advertise ...

When it comes to West Side Story, there’s a lot of cultural memory at play.There’s the music, the dancing, the cast, the Shakespearean love story, the historical context, and, intermixed with ...

Recently I went to a Seattle cineplex to see the new “West Side Story” film. But my dance with the show didn’t start there. It all began in 1959. I was an artsy nine-year old girl living in ...

In the original “West Side Story,” Anybodys was a fleeting but memorable character. She was as tough as the boys — tougher, maybe — though they often reminded her that she didn’t belong ...

West Side Story: Musical. Book by Arthur Laurents. Music by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Laurents. Through Nov. 28. Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St., San Francisco ...

Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’: Film Review. The 1957 musical masterwork is sumptuously reimagined, with Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as the young lovers torn apart by a climate of ...