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
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
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more… — Robert Gottlieb 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 Copy Share Image
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. — 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 Copy Share Image
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. — 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
