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
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! — Robert Gottlieb Anyone 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
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb Ballet 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
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her… — Robert Gottlieb Circles Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
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
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of… — Robert Gottlieb Bad Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Book Copy Share Image
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets. — Robert Gottlieb Creations Copy Share Image
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run,… — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. — Robert Gottlieb Accepted Copy Share Image
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. — Robert Gottlieb American 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
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -… — Robert Gottlieb Career 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
Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity?… — Robert Gottlieb Approach Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Another Copy Share Image
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. — Robert Gottlieb Being Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working… — Robert Gottlieb Always Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Ballet Copy Share Image
