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" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
Robert Gottlieb
Anyway
America
Far
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" 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
" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "
Robert Gottlieb
Fart
You
Point
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Hand
Down
Celebration
" 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.' "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
Dance
Together
" 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. "
Robert Gottlieb
Sleeping
Go
Wrong
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Cat
Value
City
" Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. "
Robert Gottlieb
Wayne
Capable
Good
" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "
Robert Gottlieb
Mysteries
Nothing
Scandals
" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "
Robert Gottlieb
Sights
Talent
Hungry
" Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dog
City
Decision
" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rich
Million
Write
" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
Robert Gottlieb
City
Great
Crisis
" 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
" 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
More
" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
Robert Gottlieb
Once
Little Man
Who
" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
Robert Gottlieb
Set
His
Favorite
" Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. "
Robert Gottlieb
Paris
Famous
Done
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Good
Dance
Theatre
" A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. "
Robert Gottlieb
Important
Survival
Celebrate
" 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
" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Him
Up
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
World
Today
" For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. "
Robert Gottlieb
Curiosity
People
Writing
" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "
Robert Gottlieb
Lunch
Pencil
Editing
" '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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Who
Bright
Manhattan
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
Robert Gottlieb
Illumination
Final
Consolation
" '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
" Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. "
Robert Gottlieb
None
Being
Classics
" 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