When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
