About

SOMETHING ABOUT ME (UPDATED)

 MY POSITIONS

Associate Editor (with Larry Kaplan) of the quarterly Ballet Review — that closed in 2019.

Senior Dance Critic for the weekly City Arts, where I also wrote about music from its inception in 2009 until whatever year City Arts shut down.

Chief dance critic for the New York Sun from 2005 until the paper closed in 2008.

Well, that tells you something about the state of arts writing in America.

MY PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: With Steve Willis: Anything’s Possible: Diana Sands & Civil Rights on Stage and Screen. Atlanta, GA: Bear Manor Media.

With Lisas Whitaker:  Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev.  New York: Ballet Review Books, 2001.

Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet.  Lebanon, New Hampshire:  ForeEdge, 2016.

Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Dancing on Water: A Life in Ballet From the Kirov to the ABT by Elena Tchernichova with JL.  University Press of New England, 2013.

Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady– My biography was published by ReganBooks in 2004 and reissued in paperback by Harper Collins in 2008.

Radical Rags: Fashions of the Sixties. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.

Articles about dance, opera, and books for Capital New York, Playbill, Dance Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Quest, The Weekly Standard and The New York Post.

Contributor to Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History, Academic International Press, 2004.

Contributor to Scribner’s Library of Daily Life Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, 2004.

Contributor to Costas Cacaroukas’s Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance, Tide-Mark Press, 2003.

Consultant to Francis Mason’s I Remember Balanchine, Doubleday, 1991.

MY CURRENT PROJECTS:

Publishing my Dad’s autobiography: Out of Time, which he wrote in the final three years of his life.

I’m working on an autobiography of sorts that will contain portraits of some of the extraordinary people I’ve known and researched in fashion, the arts, among family and friends.