Robert Gottlieb Quotes

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Robert Gottlieb

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 29, 1931

'Happy Feet' has many felicities.

Robert Gottlieb

'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.

Robert Gottlieb

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

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

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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.

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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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Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

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There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

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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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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

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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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A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

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

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There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

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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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When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.

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