Joan Acocella
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Joan B. Acocella (née Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker.[1] She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology.
Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.
Acocella has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for the Financial Times. Her writing also appears regularly in the New York Review of Books. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1992 and was appointed dance critic in 1998.
Her books include Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999), Mark Morris (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer Mark Morris,[2] and Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (2007), which explores the virtues common among extraordinary artists.[3] She also edited The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition (1999), Andre Levinson on Dance (1991), and Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell (2001).
Her New Yorker article "Cather and the Academy", which appeared in the November 27, 1995 issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York and was included in the “Best American Essays” anthology of 1996. She expanded the essay into Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2004).
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[edit] Bibliography
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[edit] Books
- Acocella, Joan (2007). 28 Artists & 2 Saints. Pantheon. ISBN 0375424164.
- Acocella, Joan (2006). The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252073625.
- Acocella, Joan (2004). Mark Morris. Wesleyan. ISBN 0819567310.
- Acocella, Joan (2002). Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Vintage. ISBN 037571295X.
- Acocella, Joan (2001). Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie Mackinnon Hartzell. Univ of Hawaii Pr. ISBN 0824823958.
- Acocella, Joan (1999). Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0787947946.
[edit] Journalism
- Acocella, Joan (3 November 2008). "Talk of the Town: Dance Dept.: Newcomer". The New Yorker 84 (35): 48–49. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/11/03/081103ta_talk_acocella. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- Acocella, Joan (3 November 2008). "Dancing: Pacific Heights". The New Yorker 84 (35): 119–121. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/dancing/2008/11/03/081103crda_dancing_acocella. Retrieved 17 April 2009. Reviews the San Francisco Ballet performance of "Joyride" by Mark Morris.
- Acocella, Joan (8 December 2008). "Dancing: Memory Tests". The New Yorker 84 (40): 98–99. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/dancing/2008/12/08/081208crda_dancing_acocella. Retrieved 9 July 2011. Reviews the 2008 Next Wave Festival conducted by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- Acocella, Joan (15 March 2010). "Dancing: Platonic". The New Yorker 86 (4): 76–77. Reviews the Marl Morris company performance of "Socrates" by Mark Morris.
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[edit] External links
- "What Critics Do", Joan Acocella, Dance Ink, 1992
