Writing in the dark, dancing in The New Yorker (1st ed.)

The best of America's best writer on dance"e;Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once.

If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."e; 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.