Arlene Croce quotes:

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

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.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

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.

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.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

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.