Always Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

Ballet is only good when it is great.

— Arlene Croce

The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than the dancers,…

— Sergei Polunin

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that.…

— John Guare

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

— Michael Ealy

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

— Marius Petipa

It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes,…

— Misty Copeland

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers -…

— Robert Gottlieb

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna…

— Robert Gottlieb