In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is… — Robert Gottlieb Birthday 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
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
'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of… — Robert Gottlieb Between 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
We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her… — Robert Gottlieb Best Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb About 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… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina… — Robert Gottlieb America Copy Share Image
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into… — Robert Gottlieb Actor Copy Share Image
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting… — Robert Gottlieb Again Copy Share Image
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's… — Robert Gottlieb Anything Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. — Robert Gottlieb Any Copy Share Image
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. — Robert Gottlieb 1920s Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Beloved Copy Share Image
Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. — Robert Gottlieb Call Copy Share Image
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. — Robert Gottlieb Born Copy Share Image
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb Different Copy Share Image
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. — Robert Gottlieb First Copy Share Image
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. — Robert Gottlieb Age Copy Share Image
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. — Robert Gottlieb Beauty Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. — Robert Gottlieb Brilliant Copy Share Image
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. — Robert Gottlieb Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do… — Robert Gottlieb Always Copy Share Image
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. — Robert Gottlieb Authors Copy Share Image
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. — Robert Gottlieb America 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 Always Copy Share Image
After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been… — Robert Gottlieb Around 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 Ballet Copy Share Image
The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes,… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Act Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it… — Robert Gottlieb Been Copy Share Image
