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" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
Robert Gottlieb
City
Great
Crisis
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" There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation. "
Robert Gottlieb
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Why
" Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau. "
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Always
" Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how. "
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Theatre
" Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. "
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Magnificent
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" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "
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Over
Been
" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "
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Music
Moments
Romantic
" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Tone
Relationship
Ballet
" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "
Robert Gottlieb
Sights
Talent
Hungry
" 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!' "
Robert Gottlieb
Keep Going
Faith
America
" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Folk
Dance
Men
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
World
Today
" 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
" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
Robert Gottlieb
Us
Ballet
Like
" 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
" The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Better
Great
Scenery
" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Mark
River
Light
" 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.' "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
Dance
Together
" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Overnight
New
" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "
Robert Gottlieb
Renegade
Dying
Meditation
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Love
Book
Falling
" 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. "
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Soldiers
Charm
Up
" 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
" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "
Robert Gottlieb
Fart
You
Point
" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
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Work
Nobody
Could
" 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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Media
Accomplish
Position
" Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. "
Robert Gottlieb
Company
Doing
Jazz
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rate
You
Wisdom
" For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. "
Robert Gottlieb
Curiosity
People
Writing
" '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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Dance
Action
Never
" 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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Easy
Consistency
Time