Word: croce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arlene Croce...
...line between reviewing and criticism is a smudged one, but Arlene Croce's dance column in The New Yorker falls into the latter category as easily as Randall Jarrell's poetry chronicle or James Agee's film commentary in the '40s. The dance world can very well use her learning and passionate commitment-and even her occasional irritability...
...Croce wears her knowledge easily, but it comes from time lavished in the theater with the prodigality of a monk in his chapel. Critical scale in dance can be acquired only by watching every possible performance-every last Giselle, however badly miscast, any tentative choreographer who can get a pickup company together for a few evenings in a church basement. Years of such observation inform Croce's asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward...
Tonight through Sunday at Passim (492-7679) you got Larry Croce and William Nininger. Nininger plays contemporary folk; Croce plays mumorous countryish folk, and is best known for "Junk Food Junkie," a song he wrote and recorded about a health food devotee who sneaks high-calorie, low-protein snacks. Shows at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. only on Thursday and Sunday. Admission is $3.50. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his poetry next Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at Passim, admission...
...Trock impressed the New Yorker's Arlene Croce, perhaps the sternest dance critic of all. Reviewing Bassae/Karpova's performance in the Don Quixote, Croce wrote: "Karpova, I believe, gave a better performance than the Bolshoi's Nina Sorokina. There was more wit, more plasticity, more elegance and even more femininity in Karpova's balances and kneeling backbends than in all of Sorokina's tricks." The Track's recent winter season drew such eminent visitors as Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sighed Bassae: "After 20 years of dancing I finally made it when...