Dance Writings

Edwin Denby was the most important and influential American dance critic of the 20th century. His reviews and essays—which he began writing in the late 1930s and continued to write for almost thirty years—were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. As dance critic, first for Modern Music and then for the New York Herald Tribune, and as a contributor to numerous magazines and journals (Ballet, Dance Magazine, Mademoiselle, and Evergreen Review a...