A Conversation with Marina Harss

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Marina Harss is a writer, journalist, and critic based in New York City, writing on all aspects of dance and performance. Currently the dance critic of The Hudson Review, Marina's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Ballet Review, Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Playbill, BAMBill, Dancetabs.com, the Fjord Review, and others.

Her book on the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky Life in Ballet, was published by FSG in October 2023 and was recognized by NPR and The New Yorker as a 2023 Book of The Year.

Interviewed by Eve Bromberg, co-editor of Culturebot, they discussed the field of dance criticism: how to approach documenting an ephemeral art form, the specifics of Marina’s career trajectory and her approach to her work, as well as the state of dance criticism and our hopes for the future of arts discourse and writing.

We finished with a Q&A with the audience!

Interviewer:

Eve Bromberg