Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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.
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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.
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City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
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The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
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There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.
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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
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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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Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
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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.
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'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.