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" I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean. "

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

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

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

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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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" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "

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" You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. "

Robert Gottlieb

" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "

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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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" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "

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" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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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" 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

" 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

" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "

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" Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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

" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "

Robert Gottlieb

" I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half. "

Robert Gottlieb

" '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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" 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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" Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. "

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" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "

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