Mr. Anderson continued to preach: “Let there be more man-dances in which actors portray saints, sinners, clowns, fools, lovers, haters, visionaries, idiots, idealists, madmen and ordinary citizens. Let this choreography be lyrical, exuberant, reverent, elegant, abstract, abstract and as unpredictable as life itself.
Jack Warren Anderson was born on June 15, 1935 in Milwaukee. His mother, Eleanor (Force) Anderson, worked as a hospital administrator, and his father, George, was a film projectionist.
In the late 1950s, Mr. Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in theater from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in creative writing from Indiana University. He began working as a drama and dance critic around 1960 and spent several years on the staff of Dance magazine.
He became a dance critic for The Times in 1978 and remained in that position until 2005. Later, he continued writing for the newspaper as a freelancer; Her most recent piece, an obituary about dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin, was published in 2021.
He also wrote poetry and books about dance history.
On Feb. 12, 1965, Mr. Anderson was reading the program after seeing a production of George Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Walzer” on a subway platform near Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Mr. Doris, who had just seen the ballet, came up to Mr. Anderson and began a conversation. The two men took the subway downtown and had coffee.
They were together for 58 years, married in 2006, and shared a Greenwich Village apartment. In 1977 he co-founded Dance Chronicle, a scholarly journal, which he also co-edited. it is currently seeking submissions For 2024 marks.
