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
art educated looking occasions react since time viewers work
How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.
fifteen ideal
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
checkered memoirs violently
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
folk men women
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
accepted partly personal rate wisdom works
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
charged claim whenever work
I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
easier edit
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
bad good harlem matter
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.
dance unlike
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
however
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
books case says writer
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
except harder maybe
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
great terrific
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.