168 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Technically the author is in breach of her contract. If the publisher decided that they wanted to demand the advance back, they could.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.