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Two big Cossacks have to carry him [Fred Astaire] protesting onto the dance floor, and there he does his longest and most absorbing solo of the series so far, full of stork-legged steps on toe, wheeling pirouettes in which he seems to be winding one leg around the other, and those ratcheting tap clusters that fall like loose change from his pockets.

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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 it it wasn't.

Arlene Croce

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

Arlene Croce

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

Arlene Croce

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

Arlene Croce

Arlene Croce

Arlene Croce

Born: May 5, 1934 (age 90)

Bio: Arlene Louise Croce founded Ballet Review magazine in 1965. She was a dance critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1973 to 1998. Prior to her long career as a dance writer, she also wrote film criticism for Film Culture and other magazines.

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