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Robert Gottlieb

American Writer

Born: Apr 29, 1931

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Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. Robert Gottlieb

Relationship Balance Resonance Tempest Without Loses Much

What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. Robert Gottlieb

Good Least Ballets Ground Thin Guarantees

'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. Robert Gottlieb

Made Something Vogue Had Fading Performance Because Leaves Largely

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? Robert Gottlieb

Musicians Long Too Herself Onstage Self-Absorbed Performers Like She Narcissistic Loud Goes Interested Much Many Why Her

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. Robert Gottlieb

Dancer More Only Magnificent No-One Understands Diana Works Actress Harder

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. Robert Gottlieb

Strength First Paradigm Ballerina Authority Movement Should

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. Robert Gottlieb

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. Robert Gottlieb

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. Robert Gottlieb

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. Robert Gottlieb

Changed Since Acting

Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau. Robert Gottlieb

Burger Side Though Paris Obligatory Perfect Pursuing Days Also Always Hamburgers Oddly American Who

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 Wake Up Decision Long Spring Fall September Down Dancers Relentlessly City Critics Give Something Having Weeks Days Look Dead Audiences Ballet August Wake Repertory Up After Ingenious Cut Us Used Now Season Vine Four Early

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. Robert Gottlieb

Brilliant Nothing Except Comic Ballets Than Maybe Create Harder

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind? Robert Gottlieb

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

Black Matters Shoes Mad Exaggerate Driven Red Tale Another Cliches Ballerina Ballet Swan Movies Really Earlier Suicidal

Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers. Robert Gottlieb

Three Divided Categories Often

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

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. Robert Gottlieb

Made Drive Born Talents Historically Them

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them. Robert Gottlieb

Great Dancers Know Terrific Because Always Ballet Them Many Company

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