Dancing Perfectly Free

There is something wonderfully peculiar about the rush of reviewing live art, of translating a nonverbal, transitory form into the English language. How grand, and how strange, not to know what I think of something until I find myself writing the words I feel are best suited – but still so often inadequate – to explain what it was like to encounter another person’s world.

-Claudia La Rocco, discussing dance criticism in Times Topics