Dance Index

The journal Dance Index was founded by Lincoln Kirstein in 1942. Over the following seven years, 56 issues were published, presenting original scholarship on a wide range of dance subjects. In the spirit of its predecessor, the new Dance Index examines the multi-dimensional richness and diversity of the world of dance. Its intention is to surprise and excite a general audience with a new level of understanding and appreciation of the real and critical importance of dance in contemporary culture.

New Issue

Arlene Croce on Balanchine

by Arlene Croce

DANCE INDEX, Volume 14

No.2 Fall 2023

978-0-87130-097-3

32 pages, 21 illustrations

$10

"It is often said that Balanchine’s novel contribution to choreography was dispensing with plot. But he did not use the word abstract. As a poet, he stood more for compression than abstraction. What was really novel was his reason for dispensing with plot: in order to make more story."

- Arlene Croce