All Robert Gottlieb Quotes
- Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. Graham
- The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. Brought
- Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! Anyone
- The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. Been
- We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best… Best
- City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. Artistic
- You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the… Ballet
- Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her… Barrio
- Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. Hand
- Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of… All
- Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. Classics
- Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. Ballet
- There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. Anyone
- One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. Byways
- Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from… Classicism
- Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than… Any