All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb Composer Copy Share Image
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. — Robert Gottlieb Beginning Copy Share Image
At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. — Robert Gottlieb Brilliant Copy Share Image
Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity?… — Robert Gottlieb Approach Copy Share Image
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of… — Robert Gottlieb Actor Copy Share Image
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. — Robert Gottlieb Beauty Copy Share Image
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. — Robert Gottlieb Age Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. — Robert Gottlieb Authority Copy Share Image
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
