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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
Born: Apr 29, 1931
Ballet Dance Good Great Me You
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The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. Robert Gottlieb
Mother Past Russia Mysterious Iron Iron Curtain May Curtain Ever Thing
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. Robert Gottlieb
Insecure More Writers Most Vulnerable Than Graham Kay
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. Robert Gottlieb
Music Strings Piano Sublime Romantic Flat Moments
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. Robert Gottlieb
Charleston Brought Only Chest Flat
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? Robert Gottlieb
Ups And Downs Dance Ambition Varied More Been Than Ups Downs Ever Larger Career
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. Robert Gottlieb
Great Age King Singing Young Stars Only Nat King Cole Died
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. Robert Gottlieb
Great Finest Instance Been Often Lady
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers. Robert Gottlieb
You Degree Healthy Stars Dancers Ranks Tell How Ballet Middle Interest Your Company
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. Robert Gottlieb
Master Stage Circles Drill Thrilling Head Steps Clearly Feet She Passionate Snaps Movement Her
Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. Robert Gottlieb
Latter Badly Suspect Either Aged
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. Robert Gottlieb
You Beauty Too Feel Text May Loyal Peter
How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance. Robert Gottlieb
Work Art Time Disagree Dance Looking Since Sophisticated Most React Occasions Because How Educated May Just Different Viewers Different Things Differently Things
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. Robert Gottlieb
Beauty Sleeping Too Everything Classical Wrong Most Vulnerable Greatest Does Ballets Go Often Challenging
'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
Slow Free Other Dancers Shadow Deliberate Only Inventive Occasionally Partners Empty Moves Legs Formal Breaking Each Pairs Switching Two
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. Robert Gottlieb
Love Art Long Dancers Run Bad Temporarily Only Long Run Audience Ballets Art Form Yes Form Lowering Useful Standards Fun Mediocre
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets. Robert Gottlieb
Dream Greatest Ballets George Story Creations Night
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. Robert Gottlieb
Good Competition Nurturing Christopher Dancers Indeed Mystery He Talented Most Particularly Identifying Qualities Ballet Yes Essential Younger
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. Robert Gottlieb
Queen Mother Down Entire Prince Court Traditional His Hand Celebration Lakes Swan
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!' Robert Gottlieb
Faith People Out See Inventive Always Ballet Go Lot America Modern Going Working Show Europe Bold Keep Keep Going Her
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. Robert Gottlieb
Worse Constantly Classics None Being Endure Transformed Originals
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. Robert Gottlieb
Best You Fight Dancer Say About Were Get Company Street Thing
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. Robert Gottlieb
Ups And Downs Rest Like Ballet Just Ups Us Companies Downs
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. Robert Gottlieb
Final Consolation Scott Anyone Story Illumination
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
Faith Woman Genius Dance Will Evidence Those Martha Taken Performer Along Well Am Go George Commanding Than American Graham Theater Younger Much Figures Choreographer Film Her Things Last Two
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. Robert Gottlieb
Life Death You Woman Women Fate Psychic Mysteries Lesson Approach Nutshell Ways Photographic Eccentric Variety Unresolved Studies Study Combination Metaphor Forensics Unexplained Hobby Manifestation Series Peculiar
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? Robert Gottlieb
Seriously Dance Fluid Reputation Approach Critics Taking Naive Sincerity Impressed Movie Company Why Imagine
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