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" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

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" 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. "

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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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" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "

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" Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. "

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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. "

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" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "

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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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" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "

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

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

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

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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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" Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! "

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" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "

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" The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. "

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" '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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" 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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" 'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. "

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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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" '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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" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "

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" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "

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" 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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" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "

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