Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
orders
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
heck
We don't know what the heck that was all about.
history
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
almost ankles entering exhibition hanging harry high houdini jewish men museum tall
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
faith people
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'
audiences august ballet city critics cut days dead droop early four ingenious repertory season september wake weeks
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.
far left though
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
ballet full mixture name
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.
ballet companies rest ups
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.
entering themselves women
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
almost half seems
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.
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
audiences gives love paul pleasure year
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.