Arlene Croce Quotes

• Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Eye, Mind

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

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• Ballet is only good when it is great.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Ballet, Ballet Dance

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”, Random House Inc

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

  Arlene Croce

  Writing, Process, Happened

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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.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Years, Two

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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.

  Arlene Croce

  Thinking, People, Criticism

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

  Arlene Croce

  Acceptance, Expectations, Genius

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan

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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.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, Fall, School

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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.

  Arlene Croce

  Reality, Style, Looks

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

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Ballet, Technique

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.606, Macmillan

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

  Arlene Croce

  Excellence, Genius, Alive

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.129, Macmillan

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

  Arlene Croce

  Men, He Man

  "IS THE MUSE DEAD?" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. February 26, 1996.

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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.

  Arlene Croce

  Humor, Men, Light

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