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" Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. "
Robert Gottlieb
Away
Most
Stage
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You
" 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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" 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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" '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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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
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" 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. "
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Hard Work
" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
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America
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" Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? "
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Ups And Downs
Dance
Career
" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "
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Least
Guarantees
Ground
" 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
" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Him
Up
" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "
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Plot
History
Beginning
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ballet
Seems
Now
" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Tone
Relationship
Ballet
" 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
" In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
World
Today
" 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
" Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. "
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Company
Great
Dance
" Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. "
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Inspirational
Thought
Family
" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "
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Publishing
Crapshoot
" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "
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Others
Over
Been
" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
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Me
Far
Dancers
" Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. "
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Dog
City
Decision
" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "
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Something
Once
Disagreeable
" Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. "
Robert Gottlieb
Wayne
Capable
Good
" '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. "
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Heights
Dancers
Different
" 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. "
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Paris
Famous
Done
" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "
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Either
Badly
Aged
" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "
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Ladies
Support
You