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" 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. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "

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

" Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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

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

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

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

Robert Gottlieb

" The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "

Robert Gottlieb

" I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. "

Robert Gottlieb

" All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

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

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

" '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

" '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.' "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" '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

" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "

Robert Gottlieb

" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Gottlieb