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- Kamikaze Writing Workshop
- with Elizabeth Zimmer
- A practicum in observing and recording movement
with a
- veteran member of the Dance Critics Association
- Friday, June
20 4:00-5:30pm
- Saturday, June 21 1:15-2:45pm
- Sunday, June 22
2:30-4:30pm
This workshop will concentrate on producing lucid,
interesting dance writing on a deadline within tight word limits.
Registration is limited to a maximum of eight participants. Pre
registration is required and no observers will be admitted.
Participants will meet Friday afternoon to discuss
and practice movement observation and writing, attend a performance on
Friday night, and write a brief review.
Participants will submit nine hard copies, an email or disc copy for
the Saturday session.
Attendance at a dance performance Saturday night
will be followed by another review due Sunday afternoon.
Sunday'ssession will also include a discussion of issues faced by working
critics in today's market.
Note: participants are responsible for gaining
access to a computer, whether their own or one at Kinko's.
- Cultural Coverage in Magazines of Opinion
- Saturday, June 21 9:30-10:30am
- Victor Navasky
- publisher and editorial director of The Nation and
the George Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia
University's Graduate School of Journalism
- Cultural Coverage in Newspapers
- Saturday, June 21 11:00am - 12:00pm
- John Rockwell
- Senior cultural correspondent for the New York Times
in conversation with
- Mindy Aloff
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- Senior Critic Luncheon and
Conference Address
- Dance Writing: losing ground or gaining new legs?
- (*$25 additional fee for luncheon)
- Saturday, June 21 Conference
Address 11:45-1:15pm Luncheon: 1:15-2:30pm
- Introduction by:Clive Barnes
- dance and senior drama critic for the New York Post,
monthly columnist, reviewer, and Senior Consulting Editor for Dance
Magazine, and author of numerous books on dance
- Francis Mason
- Editor, Ballet Review
Help DCA honor Francis Mason at a luncheon at Barnard.
- Who Is Reading Your Words?: Writing for
Special-interest vs. General-Interest Publications
- Moderator: Wendy Perron
- New York editor, Dance Magazine
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa
- Village Voice; dance editor, On & Off
- Gia Kourlas
- TimeOutNY
- Janice Ross
- Department of Drama, Stanford
- Martha Ullman West
- Eugene Weekly, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Happy Discoveries: Moving Pictures and Critical
Analysis
- Saturday, June 21 4:30-5:30pm
- Program moderator: Robert
Greskovic
- dance critic, The Wall Street Journal
- The Future of Ballet and Ballet Criticism
- Sunday, June 22 9:00-10:30am
- Moderator: Allan Ulrich
- Dance Magazine, voiceofdance.com, Dance International
- Robert Greskovic
- The Wall Street Journal
- Rachel Howard
- former dance critic of The San Francisco Examiner
- Gia Kourlas
- TimeOutNY
- Alexandra Tomalonis
- Ballet Alert!, DanceView, The Washington Post
- Elizabeth Zimmer
- dance editor, The Village Voice
- Three Stories in Dance: Trey McIntyre, Toni Pimble,
Paul Vasterling
- Sunday, June 22 10:30-11:00am
- Panel Chair: Martha Ullman West
- Eugene Weekly, The Chronicle for Higher Education
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- Balancing Act: Keeping Dance Pure in Disconnected
Times
- Sunday, June 22 11:15am-12:30pm
- Moderator:
Virginia Johnson
- editor, Pointe Magazine
- Janet Anderson
- City Paper of Philadelphia
- Jane Goldberg
- tap dancer, author
- Joan Hershey
- producer, MetroArts/Thirteen
- Janet Light
- essayist; consultant, Cincinnati Art Museum
- Jonathan Slaff
- publicist; chairman, Government Outreach Committee of
Downtown NYC!
How can dance forge individual and collective solutions
to raising the profile of the arts in times of difficulty?
- Virginia Woolf and the Dance
- Sunday, June 22 2:00-2:30pm
- Susan Jones
- lecturer in English, St. Hilda's College, Oxford
University
A look at how Woolf uses the dance and the figure of the
dancer as a structuring principle in her fiction
- Telling Tales Out of Class: Fiction Writers Take
on the World of Ballet
- Sunday, June 22 3:00-4:00pm
- Moderator:
Rita Feliciano
- San Francisco Bay Guardian, DanceView
- Laura Jacobs
- Women About Town, Viking, 2002
- Yona Zeldis McDonough
- The Four Temperaments, Doubleday, 2003
- Ellen Paul
- Corpse De Ballet, St. Martin's, 2001
- Adrienne Sharp
- White Swan, Black Swan, Random House, 2001; Sleeping
Beauty, Riverhead Books, 2004
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