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 Absorb 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
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. — Robert Gottlieb Art 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
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all… — Robert Gottlieb Beauty 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 best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight… — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb Agent Copy Share Image
Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. — Robert Gottlieb Call 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
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
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth… — Robert Gottlieb Charles Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Beloved 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
Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. — Robert Gottlieb Deformity Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb About Copy Share Image
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but… — Robert Gottlieb Another Copy Share Image
'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. — Robert Gottlieb Because Copy Share Image
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady… — Robert Gottlieb Been Copy Share Image
Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. — Robert Gottlieb Hand Copy Share Image
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. — Robert Gottlieb Born 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
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Books Copy Share Image