Acocella at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations
Born
Joan Barbara Ross
(1945-04-13)April 13, 1945
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died
January 7, 2024(2024-01-07) (aged 78)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
University of California, Berkeley (BA) Rutgers University (PhD)
Occupation
Dance critic
Employer
The New Yorker
Spouse
Nicholas Acocella (divorced)
Partner
Noël Carroll
Children
1
Joan Barbara Acocella (née Ross, April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for The New Yorker. She also wrote for The New York Review of Books for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology.
Joan Barbara Acocella (née Ross, April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for...
Acocella is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: JoanAcocella (1945–2024), American journalist Marisa Acocella Marchetto (born...
of Russian ballet dancers JoanAcocella (14 January 1999). "Secrets of Nijinsky". The New York Review of Books. JoanAcocella, ed. (2006) [1998]. The Diary...
200 reported cases of DID as of 1980, and 20,000 from 1980 to 1990. JoanAcocella reports that 40,000 cases were diagnosed from 1985 to 1995. Scientific...
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Laura Eliasoph Acocella, with whom he has a daughter, Francesca Rebecca Acocella, and previously married to New Yorker writer JoanAcocella (née Ross), with...
Bessie Award in 2013, and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2014. In 2004, JoanAcocella called Cornejo "the most technically accomplished male ballet dancer...
2010. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206829506/diane-gayle-lind JoanAcocella (March 20, 2006). "The Girls Next Door". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2009-12-17...
memphismusichalloffame.com. Retrieved 2022-06-13. "I Can't Go On!" by JoanAcocella, The New Yorker, 3 August 2015 'The Vanishing', interview with David...
internationalism: language & culture. The Christian Century, 1930, 47:846 JoanAcocella (October 24, 2016). "A Language to Unite Humankind". New Yorker. Archived...
" In a later review of the issues and relevant publications, critic JoanAcocella questioned whether ulterior intentions had not begun to supersede historical...
", The Daily Telegraph, 9 January 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016 JoanAcocella, "Waugh Stories: Life in a Literary Dynasty", The New Yorker, 2 July...
English edition was published of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, edited by JoanAcocella, a professional writer about dance, and in a new translation by Kyril...
as with a broad cultural phenomenon, like Barbie or the Beatles." —JoanAcocella writing in The New Yorker In 2011, Christie was named by the digital...
saying it "might be her most thrilling yet." Writing for The New Yorker, JoanAcocella noted that "where the prior volumes moved like lightning, here the pace...
annual Stieg Larsson prize". stieglarssonfoundation.se. March 2013. JoanAcocella (10 January 2011). "Man of Mystery: Why do people love Stieg Larsson's...
scholarly tunnel vision so prevalent in the groves of academe today." JoanAcocella of The New Yorker found the material about Zamenhof to be "by far the...
falls, bodies spiralling to the floor and then surging upward again ... JoanAcocella, on Graham's "classic style" Graham technique is based on "contraction...
Writers: Twentieth Century. Scribner. p. 2536. ISBN 978-0-684-19158-4. JoanAcocella (14 February 2005). "Becoming the Emperor". The New Yorker. Retrieved...
Victoria Glendinning in Sybille Bedford: In Memory (Eland, 2007), p. 41. JoanAcocella: "Piecework. The writings of Sybille Bedford", in The New Yorker, 18...
Articles JoanAcocella, "Nijinsky/Nijinska Revivals: The Rite Stuff," in Art in America, October 1991, pp. 128–137 and 167-171. JoanAcocella, "Secrets...
grant. She was also named The New Yorker's dance critic, replacing JoanAcocella. She was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
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