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 dimens…

- Arlene Croce

Ballet is only good when it is great.

- Arlene Croce

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

- Arlene Croce

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 liv…

- Arlene Croce

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

- Arlene Croce

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

- Arlene Croce

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way y…

- Arlene Croce

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

- Arlene Croce

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

- Arlene Croce