Robert Gottlieb

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

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

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

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.

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!'

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.