This blog's concern is the tricky business of recognizing dance's peculiar language and history without needlessly isolating it from the rest of the culture. The blog began September 2006, with Eva Yaa Asantewaa and Paul Parish joining as cherished contributors soon after. Reader participation warmly welcomed. … [Read more...]

Apollinaire Scherr is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Newsday, and contributed to Salon, New York magazine, the Village Voice, Elle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Barnard magazine, and Flash Art International. She gave the 2010 keynote address for the Dance Critics Association. As a graduate student at … [Read more...]

Click here to send me an email...I haven't checked the old email, ascherr@artsjournal.com in forever b/c there was just too much spam to wade through. … [Read more...]