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" 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. "

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" '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

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Dancers

Different

" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "

" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "

" As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. "

Robert Gottlieb

Course

Editor

" Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? "

" The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. "

" All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. "

" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "

" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "

" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "

" Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. "

" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "

Robert Gottlieb

Insecure

Vulnerable

" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "

" 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. "

" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "

" 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. "

" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "

" 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. "

" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "

Robert Gottlieb

Far

Dancers

" 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? "

" Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. "

" 'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.' "

" For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. "

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

" If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. "

Robert Gottlieb

You

Work

" 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. "

Robert Gottlieb

You

Book

" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "