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" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them. "

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" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "

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" Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! "

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" Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. "

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" 'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. "

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" In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two. "

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" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "

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" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "

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" 'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. "

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" 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. "

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" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "

Robert Gottlieb

" In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand. "

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" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.' "

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" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "

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" Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. "

Robert Gottlieb

" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? "

Robert Gottlieb

" 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial. "

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" The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. "

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" The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. "

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" Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard. "

Robert Gottlieb

" When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. "

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" With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. "

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" Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers. "

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" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "

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