American - Playwright | February 5, 1938 -
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
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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
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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.
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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