Debra Craine is Chief Dance critic of The Times. She has studied
ballet, modern dance, jazz, and dance notation. Debra has
contributed to several leading reference books on dance including
The International Dictionary of Ballet (1993) and has also worked
as a theatre critic. She has been writing about dance for almost
thirty years for publications in Great Britain and North America,
and has appeared many times on radio as a dance critic. Judith
Mackrell is Chief Dance critic of The Guardian. She studied English
and Philosophy at the University of York and the University of
Oxford. From 1981-1986, she was a part-time lecturer in English and
Dance at the
University of Oxford, Oxford Polytechnic, and the Roehampton
Institute, and has been a freelance dance writer and arts
broadcaster since 1986. Judith was also made an Honorary Fellow of
the Laban Centre for Dance in 1986. Her previous books include Out
of Line (1992), Reading Dance (1997), Life in Dance: Darcey Bussell
(1998), and the Costa Book Award short-listed Bloomsbury Ballerina:
A Life of Lydia Lopokova (2008).
`Review from previous edition A comprehensive and valuable
guide'
Lindsay Fulcher The Lady 5-11 Dec 2000 21/12/2000
`Informative, scholarly and entertaining, this volume is an
addictive read'
The Times 25/05/2002 20/06/2002
`A must-have volume...impressively thorough...authoritative yet
loving'
Margaret Reynolds, The Times, December 13 2000
`Admirable...a masterpiece of compression'
Sunday Telegraph December 3 2000
`A very useful work...The range of information is wide...with some
pleasant surprises along the way.'
George Dorris, Dance Now
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