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" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
Robert Gottlieb
Illumination
Final
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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. "
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" In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand. "
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" In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. "
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" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
Robert Gottlieb
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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
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" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "
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" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
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" Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. "
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" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "
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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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Ballet
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" Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how. "
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" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
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" Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. "
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Choices
Today
World
" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "
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Once
Disagreeable
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
America
Lake
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" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rich
Million
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" For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. "
Robert Gottlieb
Know
Way
Ballet
" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "
Robert Gottlieb
Plot
History
Beginning
" 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
Meaning
Work
Understand
" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
Robert Gottlieb
Point
Pieces
Strong
" 'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. "
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Kingdom
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" You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. "
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" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "
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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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" Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? "
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Reputation
Dance
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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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Done
Black
" 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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Competition
Dancers
Mystery
" A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!' "
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Keep Going
Faith
America
" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
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Crisis
" 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. "
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