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

by Arlene Croce

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.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

720 pages, Hardcover

First published November 21, 2000

About the author

Arlene Louise Croce was an American dance critic. She founded Ballet Review magazine in 1965. From 1973 to 1996 she was a dance critic for The New Yorker magazine.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of Croce's essays from The New Yorker, where she was the dance critic from the 1970s through the early 90s. Croce is mostly interested in ballet, and is probably one of the best writers on Balanchine. Fascinating reading that covers some of the most important moments in modern American dance history.