
The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book
Arlene Croce
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.
- Publisher
- Macmillan + ORM
- ISBN-13
- 9781429930130
- Genre
- Topics
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers filmsDance criticismHollywood musicals
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1973)
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