For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and ’50s, only one – Nat King Cole – died young, at age 45. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover – one-time child prodigy – should be up your alley. I don’t, and it isn’t up mine. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Porgy and Bess’ has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it’s filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it’s front and center, it isn’t crucial. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
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 help them say what they mean. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
You can approach ‘The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death’ in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman’s peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
As for the once-revolutionary ‘Agon,’ after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master – of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head – her feet drill the stage. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things – it doesn’t matter how. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
I can’t claim to ‘understand’ ‘Byzantium,’ if any dance work can be ‘understood,’ but whenever I see it, I sense that it’s charged with meaning. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
