Arlene Croce quotes
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“Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”
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“Ballet is only good when it is great.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”, Random House Inc
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“It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.606, Macmillan
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“Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.”
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“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.”
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“a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.129, Macmillan
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“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 you do.”
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“It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : "IS THE MUSE DEAD?" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. February 26, 1996.
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“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 those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.”
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“True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.”
-- Arlene CroceSource : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan
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“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.”
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“Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.”
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