168 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

Now we have a fair shot at justice being done.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.