Jack Anderson
Born	1935
Occupation	dance critic, author
Spouse(s)	George Dorris
Notable relatives	Eleanore and George W. Anderson (parents, deceased)
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times; Dancing Times and Dance (magazines); Choreography Observed and Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History (books)

Jack Anderson (born 1935) is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times. He has also written for the magazines Dancing Times (ISSN 0011-605X) and Dance (ISSN 0270-2215).

Anderson graduated from Northwestern University and received a Master's degree in creative writing from Indiana University.

[edit] Personal

Anderson is the son of Eleanore and George W. Anderson.

Anderson and George Dorris, a dance scholar and retired professor of English, were married in Toronto in 2006. As written in their New York Times wedding announcement:

"Mr. Anderson and Mr. Dorris are the co-editors of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, a scholarly journal published three times a year by Routledge. They knew each other slightly at Northwestern, and met again in 1965 on the subway platform at Lincoln Center after a New York City Ballet performance. They have been together for 41 years."^[1]

[edit] Partial Bibliography

[edit] Dance

Books

• Choreography Observed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. ISBN 0877451729 ISBN 978-0877451723
• Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History. 2nd edition. Princeton: Princeton Book Company Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0871271729 ISBN 978-0871271723

Journals

• Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, (ISSN 0147-2526)

[edit] Poetry

• Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1998. ISBN 0898231914 ISBN 978-0898231915
• The Invention of New Jersey University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969

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