Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most… — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
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
I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor… — Robert Gottlieb Business Copy Share Image
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Gottlieb Book Copy Share Image
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run,… — Robert Gottlieb Art Copy Share Image
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. — Robert Gottlieb Choreographers Copy Share Image
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets. — Robert Gottlieb Creations Copy Share Image
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -… — Robert Gottlieb Career Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded.… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her… — Robert Gottlieb Circles Copy Share Image
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
