Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn’t always know what to do with them. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
I first read ‘An American Tragedy’ in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there’s nothing left but Peter Martins’ smile. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp’s? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers – the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
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 she can. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
