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" Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. "
Robert Gottlieb
Them
Drive
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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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" '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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" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
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" In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing. "
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" 'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. "
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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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" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
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Mysterious
" Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. "
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" 'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level. "
Robert Gottlieb
Heights
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" You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers. "
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You
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" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
Robert Gottlieb
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Nobody
Could
" '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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dancers
Two
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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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Done
Black
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dog
City
Decision
" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dance
Simple
Stories
" A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. "
Robert Gottlieb
Important
Survival
Celebrate
" Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny. "
Robert Gottlieb
Soldiers
Charm
Up
" There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. "
Robert Gottlieb
Bad
Story
New
" One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. "
Robert Gottlieb
Those
Memoir
Great
" Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket. "
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You
Sea
See
" If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. "
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You
Work
Like
" You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing. "
Robert Gottlieb
Parents
Your
You
" The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities. "
Robert Gottlieb
Competition
Dancers
Mystery
" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
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Set
His
Favorite
" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "
Robert Gottlieb
Least
Guarantees
Ground
" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Overnight
New
" 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? "
Robert Gottlieb
Reputation
Dance
Company
" How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Art
Dance
Looking
" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "
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How
English
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