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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.
- Robert Gottlieb
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#Mad
#Movies
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#Shoes
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
#City
#Great
#New
#Smile
#Value
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
#Celebrate
#Diet
#Important
#Survival
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
- Robert Gottlieb
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#Hard Work
#Life
#Sympathy
#Work
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Assume
#Editors
#Like
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.
- Robert Gottlieb
#American
#Dance
#Faith
#Genius
#I Am
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
#Company
#Earn
#Money
#Reap
#Stuck
Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'
- Robert Gottlieb
#Black
#Blood
#Swan
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
#Company
#Done
#Famous
#Opera
#School
'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.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Down
#Heights
#Large
#Level
#Light
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Art
#Name
#Peace
#People
#War
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Charm
#End
#Funny
#Red
#Who
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Comedy
#Destination
#Heaven
#Like
#Today
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.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Bond
#Family
#Feet
#Inspirational
#Way
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Act
#Memoir
#New
#Parents
#Your
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Authority
#First
#Movement
#Strength
The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Cold
#Collaboration
#Comfort
#Ocean
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Common Sense
#Editing
#Good
#Sense
#Why
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Moments
#Music
#Piano
#Romantic
#Sublime
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.
- Robert Gottlieb
#Anniversary
#City
#Great
#Life
#Me
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