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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
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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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" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "
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Format
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" 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dance
Action
Never
" I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half. "
Robert Gottlieb
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Remember
Last
" 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. "
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Consistency
Time
" 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
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" 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 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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You
Book
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" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "
Robert Gottlieb
Others
Over
Been
" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
Robert Gottlieb
Point
Pieces
Strong
" Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. "
Robert Gottlieb
Company
Doing
Jazz
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
Robert Gottlieb
Illumination
Final
Consolation
" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "
Robert Gottlieb
Either
Badly
Aged
" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Folk
Dance
Men
" Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. "
Robert Gottlieb
Away
Most
Stage
" Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. "
Robert Gottlieb
Heaven
Today
Loving
" '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
" Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. "
Robert Gottlieb
Fun
Run
Long
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Street
Best
Fight
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Know
Best
Right
" '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
" With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. "
Robert Gottlieb
Love
Book
Falling
" The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. "
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Ocean
Farm
Comfort
" 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
" As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. "
Robert Gottlieb
Keep
Company
Ballet
" 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
" 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. "
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Matters
Movies
Black
" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "
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Renegade
Dying
Meditation