Arlene Croce famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
-- Arlene Croce

#Dance #Eye #Mind
Ballet is only good when it is great.
-- Arlene Croce

#Dance #Ballet
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
-- Arlene Croce

#Dance #Technique #Body
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
-- Arlene Croce

#Writing #Process
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
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
-- Arlene Croce

#Excellence #Genius #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 you do.
-- Arlene Croce

#Thinking #People #Criticism
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
-- Arlene Croce

#Men #He Man
When I left the theaterâ€¦ I was thinking that Iâ€™d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives â€“ itâ€™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 â€“ 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
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
-- Arlene Croce

#Acceptance #Expectations #Genius
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
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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