Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader

The best of America's best writer on dance "Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love." From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post created for her. Her entertaining, forthright, passionate reviews and essays have revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants to a generation of theatergoers. This volume contains her most significant and provocative pieces-over a fourth have never appeared in book form-writings that reverberate with consequence and controversy for the state of the art today.

Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader

Arts & Photography

CROCE, Arlene

Performing Arts

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

“Cool, fully engaged, brilliant and tough.” —Rick Whitaker, The Washington Post Book WorldTheoretically, I am ready to go to anything—once. If it moves, I’m interested; if it moves to music, I’m in love.” From 1973 until 1998 Arlene Croce wrote The New Yorker’s dance column, which was created for her. Her entertaining, forthright, passionate reviews and essays revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants to a generation of theatergoers. They offer vital commentary on the late works of George Balanchine and on such classics as Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Cinderella. Croce chronicles the flourishing careers of Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Suzanne Farrell and, as the century ends, the problematic status of the great national ballet companies: New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, and Russia’s Kirov and Bolshoi Ballets. This volume of her most significant and provocative writings reverberates with consequence and controversy for the state of the art today.

Afterimages

Alfred.A. Knopf

Going to The Dance

Going to the Dance

KNOPF

1987 ALFRED A. KNOPF hardcover, Arlene Croce (The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book). A dance critic shares 72 essays on her favorite dances.

Sight Lines

Humor & Entertainment

Going to The Dance [Paperback] [Jul 12, 1982] Croce, Arlene

The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Describes the dynamic career and major film productions of the famous dancing pair

the fred astaire & ginger rogers book

Galahad

Duton

A and C Black Publishers Ltd

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