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" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "
Robert Gottlieb
Lunch
Pencil
Editing
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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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" '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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" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "
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" As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. "
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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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" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
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" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "
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" What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. "
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Name
People
" As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional. "
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Seems
Now
" 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
" We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can. "
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Know
Best
Right
" 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 Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
Robert Gottlieb
Iron
Russia
Mysterious
" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "
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Always
Overnight
New
" Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. "
Robert Gottlieb
Choices
Today
World
" Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. "
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Fun
Run
Long
" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "
Robert Gottlieb
May
Text
You
" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
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Like
Editors
Assume
" 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
" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "
Robert Gottlieb
Least
Guarantees
Ground
" 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
" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ideal
World
Us
" 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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Paris
Perfect
Always
" When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. "
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Training
Army
Genius
" 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
Say
Help
" After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world? "
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World
Success
Saying
" City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile. "
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Cat
Value
City
" One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind? "
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Determination
Blind
People
" 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. "
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You
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" Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. "
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