Than Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

9 Than quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb’s nine concise thoughts on ‘Than’ carry the precision of a seasoned editor, turning simple comparisons into polished, memorable lines.

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

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Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger…

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Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -…

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Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

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Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going…

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Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor…

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Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more…

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As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language…

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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than…

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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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When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

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Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

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Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made…

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Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

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For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

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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…

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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

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You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series…

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