Jack Anderson (dance critic)

Jack Warren Anderson (born June 15, 1935 in Milwaukee ) is an American ballet critic and poet .

Life

Jack Anderson studied literature and theater at Northwestern University and creative writing at Indiana University (MA). In 1959, he began working as a journalist for the Oakland Tribune , where he became a theater critic. He also began to write for Dance Magazine , where he was employed from 1964 to 1970. In 1978 he became a ballet critic for The New York Times alongside Anna Kisselgoff and Jennifer Dunning . He retired in 2005. From 1977 he directed the newly founded professional magazine Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts with George Dorris (born 1930) . In 2007 you handed the editorial team into younger hands. Jack Anderson and George Dorris were married in Toronto in 2006.

Anderson published several books on dance and dance history, his book on the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo won the 1981 José de la Torre Bueno Prize for dance history.

Anderson has given guest lectures at the American Dance Festival , the University of Adelaide , the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Minnesota , the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, Minnesota), the New School for Social Research , Lehman College , at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Oklahoma .

In 1969 Anderson published the first two of his ten volumes of poetry. He was a visiting poet at the College of DuPage in Illinois and at the University of Kansas . For his poetry he received a fellowship and a literature prize from the National Endowment for the Arts .

Works (selection)

dance

• Dance . New York: Newsweek Books, 1974
• Ballet & modern dance: a concise history . Princeton, NJ: Princeton Book, 1977
• The Nutcracker . London: Bison Books, 1979
• The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1981.
• The American Dance Festival . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987.
• Choreography Observed . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.
• Art without Boundaries: The World of Modern Dance . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997.

Poetry

• The Hurricane Lamp . Trumansburg, NY: New / Books, 1969.
• The Invention of New Jersey . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969.
• City joys . New York: Release Press, 1975.
• Selected Poems . New York: Release Press, 1975.
• Toward the Liberation of the Left Hand . Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
• The Dust Dancers . Kansas City: Book Mark Press, 1978.
• The Clouds of That Country . Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1982.
• Field trips on the rapid transit . Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1990.
• Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems . Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1998.
• Getting Lost in a City Like This . Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2009.
• Backyards of the Universe . Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2017.

literature

• Anderson, Jack , in: Horst Koegler (Ed.): The concise Oxford dictionary of ballett . London: Oxford University Press, 1977
• Anderson, Jack , in: Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell (Eds.): The Oxford Dictionary of Dance . London: Oxford University Press, 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Jack Anderson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jack Anderson (dance critic) in the bibliographic database WorldCat