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 Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. — 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally… — 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 about each… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long:… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius… — 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 I've made… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — 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 period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
