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" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
Robert Gottlieb
Set
His
Favorite
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" What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. "
Robert Gottlieb
Matters
Movies
Black
" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "
Robert Gottlieb
Mysteries
Nothing
Scandals
" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "
Robert Gottlieb
Either
Badly
Aged
" 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
Competition
Dancers
Mystery
" What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. "
Robert Gottlieb
Easy
Consistency
Time
" The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. "
Robert Gottlieb
America
Lake
First Time
" 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
Ending
Beginning
Book
" 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
" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Him
Up
" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Mark
River
Light
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
Sea
See
" It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. "
Robert Gottlieb
Disagree
Little
Sometimes
" '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
" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "
Robert Gottlieb
Age
Singing
Stars
" Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard. "
Robert Gottlieb
Yourself
Book
Important
" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "
Robert Gottlieb
More
Insecure
Vulnerable
" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Folk
Dance
Men
" 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Leaves
Vogue
Had
" '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
Heights
Dancers
Different
" 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
" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "
Robert Gottlieb
May
Text
You
" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "
Robert Gottlieb
Publishing
Crapshoot
" 'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. "
Robert Gottlieb
Kingdom
Ocean
Story
" 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
Important
Survival
Celebrate
" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
Robert Gottlieb
Once
Little Man
Who
" Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny. "
Robert Gottlieb
Soldiers
Charm
Up
" Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Relationship
Without
Balance
" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
Robert Gottlieb
Point
Pieces
Strong
" 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
" There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. "
Robert Gottlieb
Bad
Story
New