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John Guare
John Guare
American Playwright
Born: Feb 5, 1938
Ballet City Does Life People York
Related authors: Arthur Miller August Wilson David Henry Hwang George C. Wolfe Howard E. Koch Lorraine Hansberry Lynn Nottage Sam Shepard
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. John Guare
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The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. John Guare
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare
Comedy Humiliation Tragedy Avoiding Core
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger. John Guare
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. John Guare
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. John Guare
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I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes. John Guare
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I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. John Guare
Year Every Think Otherwise Alive Worthy City Take New Terrible Terrible Thing Because Ballet Celebration York Just New York New York City New York City Ballet Granted Thing
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. John Guare
Music Together Space Extraordinary Way Those Given Emotional Come Look Force Makes Ballet Geometry Wonder Controlled Listen Us Bodies
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. John Guare
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? John Guare
History World Word Become Live State Bad Most Did Where Amnesia
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do. John Guare
Heart Eyes Possibilities Hopefully Variations Head Arms Dealt Human Legs Human Body Body Extensions Two
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater. John Guare
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