Tag: Edwin Denby

Read up on Edwin Denby’s contributions to dance criticism here, then test your students’ knowledge with this quiz!  1. Denby enrolled at ________ University at age ________. 2. Denby studied modern dance at the ________-________School in Vienna. 3. What was the first Balanchine ballet Denby saw 4. What was Denby’s cat’s name? 5. Editor ________ […]

Until the late 1970s, a slight, regal man with radiant white hair was a quiet fixture at theaters throughout New York City. Edwin Denby (1903–1983), an established dance critic and poet, saw as many styles of dance as he possibly could. Though Denby rarely spoke—and when he did, he whispered—his silent authority carried a far […]