“Ballet’s relationship to time–the fact that the repertory, unanchored by text, is always vanishing, just as the dance image on the stage is always vanishing–forms a large part of the vividness and poignance of the art. We are always losing it, like life, and therefore we re-create it, mythologize it, in our minds.”
–Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, pp. 184-85.