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" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Folk
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Men
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" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "
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" '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.' "
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" The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. "
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" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
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" Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? "
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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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" 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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" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "
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" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
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You
" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "
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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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" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
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" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "
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" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "
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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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" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "
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" Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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