There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. — Robert Gottlieb Anyone Copy Share Image
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. — Robert Gottlieb Artistic Copy Share Image
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. — Robert Gottlieb Action Copy Share Image
The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. — Robert Gottlieb Curtain Copy Share Image
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway. — Robert Gottlieb America Copy Share Image
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. — Robert Gottlieb British Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Great Copy Share Image
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. — Robert Gottlieb Compared Copy Share Image
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of… — Robert Gottlieb Actor Copy Share Image
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and… — Robert Gottlieb Difficult Copy Share Image
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't,… — Robert Gottlieb Alley Copy Share Image
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. — Robert Gottlieb Always Copy Share Image
'Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial… — Robert Gottlieb Concept 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
'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and… — Robert Gottlieb Above 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
'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs… — Robert Gottlieb Breaking Copy Share Image
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the… — Robert Gottlieb About 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
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini… — Robert Gottlieb After 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
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb Always Copy Share Image
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. — Robert Gottlieb Equally Copy Share Image
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb Fixed Copy Share Image
At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. — Robert Gottlieb Certain Copy Share Image
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. — Robert Gottlieb Beginning Copy Share Image
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb Composer Copy Share Image
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. — Robert Gottlieb Apparently Copy Share Image
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. — 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
