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 made for you even if it wasn't.
Ballet is only good when it is great. - Arlene Croce
Ballet is only good when it is great.
- Arlene Croce
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
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…
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. - Arlene Croce
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them. - Arlene Croce
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. - Arlene Croce
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
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
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…
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. - Arlene Croce
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
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
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…
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. - Arlene Croce
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
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