American - Writer | April 29, 1931 -
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
Robert Gottlieb
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The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.
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If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
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Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
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I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
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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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I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.
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Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
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I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
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Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
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'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.
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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
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