Times critic changes role.In January, Anna Kisselgoff stepped down as chief dance critic for The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, but will continue to write on dance for The Times. She became a dance critic and cultural reporter in 1968 and was appointed chief dance critic in 1977. She wrote news stories, features, profiles, and Sunday pieces as well as daily reviews. Seeing Act II of Swan Lake Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое Озеро, Lebedinoye Ozero, Swan Lake at a Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. Russian Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox church of Russia, its de facto national church. In 988 Prince Vladimir of Kiev (later St. prompted her to take ballet lessons at age 4. She later studied for nine years with Jean Yazvinsky, who had been a dancer with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and regisseur ré·gis·seur n. pl. re·gis·seurs A stage director, especially of a ballet. [French, from régir, régiss-, to direct, from Old French regir, from Latin of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballet company formed in Monte Carlo in 1932. The name derived from Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which dissolved after his death in 1929. Under René Blum and Col. W. for nine years. She started reviewing dance concerts as the editor of her college newspaper at Bryn Mawr and later for the international edition of The Times in Paris. In addition to her work as a critic, she wrote the introduction, helped edit, and was consultant for the autobiography Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs, and has taught dance subjects at Yale and Barnard College. The new Chief Dance Critic is John Rockwell. (See "Attitudes," page 168.) |
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