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" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "
Robert Gottlieb
Authority
Strength
First
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" 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. "
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" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "
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" 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. "
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" Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' "
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" Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty. "
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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
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" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
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" 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. "
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" Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.' "
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" I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. "
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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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" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
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" '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?' "
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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. "
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" 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? "
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World
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Saying
" Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. "
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" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "
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You
Point
" 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
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Her
Head
" 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. "
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" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
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" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "
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" Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers. "
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" Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform. "
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Acting
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" In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two. "
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" You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers. "
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" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
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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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" 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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