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title: "2 Concept Quotes By Robert Gottlieb"
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> ['Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/eclipse-is-a-concept-piece-and-its-concept-centers-on-36-large-light/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/robert-gottlieb-2761_above_eclipse-is-a-concept-piece-and-its-conce_1029433.png)

> ['Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/eclipse-is-overlong-and-overly-self-conscious-but-it-isn-t-a-fake-or/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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## Other authors on Concept

## More by Robert Gottlieb

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/paul-taylor-s-offenbach-overtures-has-lots-of-zip-and-charm-and-its/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/jodi-melnick-is-hotly-self-absorbed-her-onstage-musicians-are-much/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/increasingly-editing-means-going-to-lunch-it-means-editing-with-a/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> ['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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/porgy-and-bess-has-never-been-thought-of-as-a-dance-show-and-yet-it-s/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/blood-is-the-leitmotif-of-black-swan/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/we-know-how-merce-cunningham-works-and-how-he-thinks-we-ve-been-told/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/when-i-was-at-cambridge-in-the-early-fifties-there-was-a-school/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/acting-has-changed-since-the-nineteen-forties/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/many-people-say-to-me-particularly-about-my-dance-writing-it-sounds/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/schumann-s-quintet-in-e-flat-for-piano-and-strings-is-one-of-the/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/what-makes-a-publishing-house-great-the-easy-answer-is-the/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/for-me-the-real-pleasure-in-writing-is-in-having-an-excuse-to-pursue/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/ballet-in-september-used-to-be-dead-as-a-dodo-now-with-city-ballet-s/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/i-have-fixed-more-sentences-than-most-people-have-read-in-their-lives/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

> [You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/you-can-approach-the-nutshell-studies-of-unexplained-death-in-a/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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