Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
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Pure Gold
August 13, 2009
The Golden Legend a dance piece by Christopher Williams
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‘Beware of Pity’
July 13, 2006
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Between Comedy and Horror
June 8, 2006
The Afterlife
by Donald Antrim
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‘A Note of the Miraculous’
June 9, 2005
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
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No Bloody Toe Shoes
February 26, 2004
The Company a film by Robert Altman, story by Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner, screenplay by Barbara Turner
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The Neapolitan Finger
December 21, 2000
Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity (La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano)
by Andrea de Jorio, translated and edited by Adam Kendon
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Secrets of Nijinsky
January 14, 1999
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‘Sweet as a Fig’
August 14, 1997
Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton
by Julie Kavanagh
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On Tap
June 6, 1996
Bring In ‘da Noise, Bring In ‘da Funk choreography by Savion Glover. conceived and directed by George C. Wolfe. at the Ambassador Theatre, New York City
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Heroes and Hero Worship
November 16, 1995
Mosaic: Memoirs
by Lincoln Kirstein
Following Balanchine by Robert Garis
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The Long Goodbye
April 7, 1994
New York City Ballet’s ‘Balanchine Celebration’ September 1994) directed by Matthew Diamond. produced by Dance in America, Channel 13/WNET