Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.
From Robert Gottlieb
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
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