168 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

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.

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.