Mindy Aloff

Poet

US

Author's Bio

I am also the editor of <em>Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World by Agnes de Mille</em> (University Press of Florida, 2011) and author of the book <em>Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation</em> (Disney Editions, 2009).

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Reading Dance (Pantheon, 2008)
,
Stone City I (Stone City Press, 1977)
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Contemporaries (Viking, 1972)
Books:
Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
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Night Lights (Prescott Street Press, 1979)
Journals: ,
Choice
, ,
Parnassus
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St. Andrews Review
,
The New Yorker
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Prizes won: 

Whiting Writers Award; Past Fellow: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Dance Critics Institute of the American Dance Festival

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems by Robert Hass, The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney's Movie Magic by John Canemaker, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall and Jean Stearns

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Nov 07, 2015