Critics Historians Quotes by Roselee Goldberg

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

— Roselee Goldberg

My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always…

— Roselee Goldberg

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

— Roselee Goldberg

I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing…

— Roselee Goldberg

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

— Roselee Goldberg

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

— Roselee Goldberg

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the…

— Roselee Goldberg

I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but…

— Roselee Goldberg

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

— Roselee Goldberg

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a…

— Roselee Goldberg

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in…

— Roselee Goldberg