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

By Arlene Croce

Book Overview

The best of America's best writer on dance
For twenty-five years, Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post the magazine created expressly 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. This volume contains her most significant and provocative pieces--over a fourth of which never appeared in book form--covering classical ballets, the rise of George Balanchine, the careers of Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, and Merce Cunningham, and the controversies surrounding many of the twentieth century's great dance companies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813029139
• ISBN13: 9780813029139
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 7.8"