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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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
People
Dance
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" It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. "
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Little
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" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Cat
Value
City
" 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
Been
Finest
Great
" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "
Robert Gottlieb
Film
Format
Remember
" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "
Robert Gottlieb
More
Insecure
Vulnerable
" 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
Books
Know
Why
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Keep
Company
Ballet
" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "
Robert Gottlieb
New
See
Generation
" Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. "
Robert Gottlieb
More
Magnificent
Harder
" In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. "
Robert Gottlieb
Strong
City
Great
" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "
Robert Gottlieb
Authority
Strength
First
" Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Relationship
Without
Balance
" Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. "
Robert Gottlieb
Company
Great
Dance
" We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole. "
Robert Gottlieb
Knowledge
Future
Need
" 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
Reputation
Dance
Company
" 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
Paris
Famous
Done
" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
Robert Gottlieb
Iron
Russia
Mysterious
" In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand. "
Robert Gottlieb
Hand
Down
Celebration
" '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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dancers
Two
Slow
" 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
" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
Robert Gottlieb
Once
Little Man
Who
" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
Robert Gottlieb
Action
Always
You
" 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
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rate
You
Wisdom
" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
Robert Gottlieb
Us
Ballet
Like
" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "
Robert Gottlieb
Least
Guarantees
Ground
" Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway. "
Robert Gottlieb
Run
Spring
Me
" 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
Watching
Remember
Last
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
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