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" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" '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. "

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" One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. "

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" The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. "

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" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "

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" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "

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" 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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" '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. "

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" No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. "

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" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "

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" 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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" 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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" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "

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" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "

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