''Ballet Review'' was a print

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which covered all aspects of

dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

. It was published by the

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Dance Research Foundation, Inc. While its name says "

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

," it also covered

modern dance Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert dance, concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th ...

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of Concert dance, dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly stron ...

, other

choreography Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

, and all kinds of

folk dance A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, Ritual, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances ...

including Asian traditions. It was noted for its carefully chosen contemporary and historical

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; in-depth

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with dancers, choreographers, and company directors; criticism and analyses; and reports of recent performances in

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, in world capitals, and from around

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Arlene Croce Arlene Louise Croce (; May 5, 1934 – December 16, 2024) was an American dance critic. She co-founded '' Ballet Review'' magazine in 1965 and served as its first editor. From 1973 to 1996 she was a dance critic for ''The New Yorker'' magazine. ...

, David Vaughan, and Robert Cornfield founded ''Ballet Review'' in 1965. Croce served as the publication's first editor. Vaughan continued to write for the magazine until 2016, and Cornfield was the magazine's second editor. In 1970 a

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, the Dance Research Foundation, was created to oversee the publication of ''Ballet Review''. The Foundation is also involved in research about dance and related arts. Francis Mason, co-author of ''Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets'' was editor from 1980 until his death in 2009. In 2009, Marvin Hoshino, who had been the

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of ''Ballet Review'' since the 1980s, became the editor. Under Mr. Hoshino's leadership, ''Ballet Review'' expanded and in 2013 it began publishing its photographs in color. Mr. Hoshino continued to design the publication, and with his technical knowledge, astute eye, and masterful manipulation of color and tone, he firmly established ''Ballet Review'' as "''The'' Premier Dance Journal." In May 2019, ''Ballet Review'' announced that it would be suspending publication, and in November 2019 it announced that it would be ceasing publication. ''Ballet Review's'' final (double) issue, Volume 48, Numbers 1 & 2, "Spring-Summer 2020," was published in August 2020.

Dance Research Foundation, Inc.

The Dance Research Foundation, Inc. is supported in part by funds from National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. The current members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation are Hubert Goldschmidt, Alan W. Kornberg, Dawn Lille, Michael Popkin, and David S. Weiss.

References

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