Sasha Anawalt is the founding director of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and director of the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC Annenberg. She wrote the best-selling cultural biography, The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company (Scribner, 1996 and published in paperback, University of Chicago Press, 1997). The New York Times acclaimed it a "milestone in dance writing." Anawalt served as chief dance critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for six years, and for two years at the LA Weekly. She is known as the voice of "Dance Notes" -- her dance criticisms and commentaries for KCRW, National Public Radio in Santa Monica, to which she contributed until 2003. A native of New York City and a graduate of Barnard College, she started writing on the arts for the SoHo Weekly News in 1976. Her reviews and features can be found in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Montreal Gazette, Dance Magazine, Ballet Review, and MSNBC-online archives. In May 2005, she helped present the first National Critics Conference hosted by USC Annenberg in Los Angeles.

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Seminar speeches given by Sasha Anawalt:

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