Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay considers Jerome Robbins's 1950 ballet Age of Anxiety in relation to the W. H. Auden poem on which it is based and to the particular pressures on Robbins in the early 1950s as a Jewish, gay, former Communist Party member. Making use of Robbins's annotated copy of Auden's poem, his choreographic notes, and extant film of the dance work, this article argues that Auden's poem serves as a key to reading back into Robbins's ballet a set of specific Cold War personal and political anxieties even as the choreography moved away from overt political statements.
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