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

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The best of Americas best writer on dance "Theoretically I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves Im interested; if it moves to music Im in love." From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorkers 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.