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Barnard
College Hosts Conference for Dance Critics, The New World
of Dance Writing, June 20-22
New
York, N.Y.— Barnard College will host the Dance Critics
Association’s national conference for dance critics,
The New World of Dance Writing: Coping With Changes in
What We See, How and Where We’re Publishing, from
June 20-22. The three-day conference will include dance performances,
writing workshops, and presentations by noted journalists
from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington
Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Village Voice.
Mindy
Aloff |
Mindy
Aloff, conference chair and renowned dance critic, who teaches
writing and dance criticism at Barnard, said "This year
we are examining issues that relate to us as journalists and
writers – what better place than Barnard, which is affiliated
with Columbia University, to discuss the future of both American
journalism and American dance criticism. Barnard has maintained
a long-standing commitment to the teaching of dance criticism
and dance history, while Columbia sustains perhaps the most
visible school of journalism in the country."
The Barnard Dance Department is the University-designated
program for undergraduates. Dance history and dance criticism
courses are an established part of Barnard’s curriculum
along with the respected dance performance curriculum. New
programs, such as "Summer Dance at Barnard," further
Barnard’s commitment to dance.
Scheduled event highlights include a "Kamikaze Writing
Workshop," a series of three sessions during the weekend
of June 20-22, directed by Village Voice dance editor
Elizabeth Zimmer. This workshop is geared towards producing
lucid, interesting dance writing on a deadline and includes
attending a live performance. On Saturday, June 21, Victor
Navasky, publisher and editorial director of The Nation
and George Delacorte, professor of magazine journalism at
Columbia, will examine "Cultural Coverage in Magazines
of Opinion," and John Rockwell, senior cultural correspondent
for the New York Times, and Aloff will discuss "Cultural
Coverage in Newspapers."
On Sunday, June 22, a panel on "The Future of Ballet
and Ballet Criticism," moderated by Dance Magazine’s
Allan Ullrich, will include Wall Street Journal’s
Robert Greskovic, former San Fransisco Chronicle dance critic
Rachel Howard, TimeOut New York’s Gia Kourlas,
and Alexandra Tomalonis of Ballet Alert!, DanceView,
and the Washington Post. Several noted fiction writers,
among them Adrienne Sharp and Laura Jacobs, will discuss dance
fiction writing in "Telling Tales Out of Class: Fiction
Writers Take on the World of Ballet."
Dance performances during the conference include Stravinsky’s
"Italian Suite," by the Christopher Caines Dance
Company, and a performance by Pablo Pugliese and Sandra Antognazzi.
The Dance Critics Association, which is soon celebrating its
30th anniversary, promotes the identity of professional dance
criticism through national and regional conferences, the distribution
of publications, and promotional services for dance critics.
For more information on the conference, please contact Mindy
Aloff, Barnard Dance Department, 212-854-1275 or visit www.criticaldance.com/dca/.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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