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Robert Gottlieb
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" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Him
Up
" '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
" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
Robert Gottlieb
Anyway
America
Far
" All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ways
Different
Ballet
" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "
Robert Gottlieb
Film
Format
Remember
" Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. "
Robert Gottlieb
Decide
Start
Never
" 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? "
Robert Gottlieb
World
Success
Saying
" 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
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
Robert Gottlieb
Illumination
Final
Consolation
" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "
Robert Gottlieb
How
English
Playing
" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
Robert Gottlieb
Action
Always
You
" 'Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?' "
Robert Gottlieb
Just
Zero
Question
" 'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Done
Black
" 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
" 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 early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. "
Robert Gottlieb
Modern
Left
Art
" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Nobody
Could
" For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. "
Robert Gottlieb
Know
Way
Ballet
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dog
City
Decision
" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "
Robert Gottlieb
Sights
Talent
Hungry
" Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. "
Robert Gottlieb
Choices
Today
World
" In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing. "
Robert Gottlieb
World
Will
View
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Inspirational
Thought
Family
" Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. "
Robert Gottlieb
Who
Bright
Manhattan
" Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? "
Robert Gottlieb
Ups And Downs
Dance
Career
" I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. "
Robert Gottlieb
Lake
First
Hated
" '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
" Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage. "
Robert Gottlieb
Passionate
Her
Head
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Training
Army
Genius
" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "
Robert Gottlieb
Authority
Strength
First