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 About 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… — Robert Gottlieb Goes Copy Share Image
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb Card 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… — Robert Gottlieb Action 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… — Robert Gottlieb Again 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… — Robert Gottlieb Army 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 About Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb Flat 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 Answer 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… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb After Copy Share Image
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb Fixed Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Approach Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. — Robert Gottlieb Always 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
Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. — Robert Gottlieb Aged Copy Share Image
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb Editors Copy Share Image
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. — Robert Gottlieb Equally Copy Share Image
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Authors Copy Share Image
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet 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 Decide Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Appeal Copy Share Image
