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

Robert Gottlieb

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" As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional. "

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" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "

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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. "

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

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" Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "

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" It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "

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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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" The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. "

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" 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. "

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" 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. "

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" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "

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" With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company. "

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

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" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "

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" 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. "

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" There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation. "

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