Jack Anderson (dance critic)
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| Jack Anderson | ||
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| Born | 1935 | |
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| Occupation | dance critic, author | |
| Spouse | George Dorris | |
| Notable relatives | Eleanore and George W. Anderson (parents, deceased) | |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; Dancing Times and Dance (magazines); Choreography Observed and Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History (books) | |
Jack Anderson (born 1935) is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times. He has also written for the magazines Dancing Times (ISSN 0011-605X) and Dance (ISSN 0270-2215).
Anderson graduated from Northwestern University and received a Master's degree in creative writing from Indiana University.
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[edit] Personal
Anderson is the son of Eleanore and George W. Anderson.
Anderson and George Dorris, a dance scholar and retired professor of English, were married in Toronto in 2006. As written in their New York Times wedding announcement:
"Mr. Anderson and Mr. Dorris are the co-editors of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, a scholarly journal published three times a year by Routledge. They knew each other slightly at Northwestern, and met again in 1965 on the subway platform at Lincoln Center after a New York City Ballet performance. They have been together for 41 years."[1]
[edit] Partial Bibliography
[edit] Dance
Books
- Choreography Observed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. ISBN 0877451729 ISBN 978-0877451723
- Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History. 2nd edition. Princeton: Princeton Book Company Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0871271729 ISBN 978-0871271723
Journals
[edit] Poetry
- Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1998. ISBN 0898231914 ISBN 978-0898231915
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