Claudia La Rocco

New York Times dance critic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claudia La Rocco is a poet, critic, and performer who works as a columnist for Artforum and writes about books and theater for The New York Times.

Education

La Rocco graduated from Bowdoin College in 2000 with a degree in English.[1]

Career

La Rocco began her dance and theater critic career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press. Beginning in 2005, she joined The New York Times as their dance critic until 2013.[2] She founded thePerformanceClub.org, which won a 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant[3] and focuses on criticism as a literary art form. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Criticism and Writing program.[4]

Publications

  • 2014. The Best Most Useless Dress. Badlands Unlimited
  • 2015. I Don't Poem: An Anthology of Painters. Off the Park Press
  • 2015. Dancers, Buildings, People in the Streets. Danspace Project

References

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