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" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. "

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" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "

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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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" Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. "

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" The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. "

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" For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. "

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" Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me. "

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" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "

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" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "

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" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "

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" Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? "

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" It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. "

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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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" A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!' "

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" You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. "

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" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "

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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. "

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" No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. "

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" What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. "

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" Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' "

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" One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. "

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

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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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" A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. "

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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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" 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. "

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" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "

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" Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. "

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