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Feb 08, 1934 Los Angeles, California, United States 90 years old
American dance critic
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About Deborah Jowitt
- Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer.
- Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer.
- Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for her work in dance criticism. Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village Voice, providing frequent reviews of dance performances in New York City.
- From some time in the 1970s until 1994, the Voice had a page and a half for dance coverage: Jowitt contributed 1600 words or a full page of this, week after week, plus occasional features.
- Collections of her reviews from the Voice and numerous other publications have appeared as books - Dance Beat: Views and Reviews, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1977 and The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews, 1976–1983, Boston: David R.
- Godine, 1985. In 2007 her column in the Village Voice was increased in length to 3/4 page, having been earlier reduced to a half-page; in 2008, however, her position as dance critic was converted from full-time to freelance.
- However, Jowitt continues to write 3/4 page reviews for the Voice and writes reviews for the Voice on-line edition.
- She is a faculty member at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU).
