DANSOX Summer School 2021 | Alastair Macaulay, “Writing into Dancing”

Opening Guest Lecture “Writing into Dancing”. Alastair will explore issues arising from dance notation, choreographers’ preparatory notes for choreography, and show examples of literature promoting dances.

DANSOX Summer School 2020 | Guest Lecture 1: Alistair Macaulay on Paul Taylor

Alastair is an international writer and critic of dance and drama who also lectures widely on dance. He has given guest lectures for Dansox on Cunningham, Ashton, Astaire, and Balanchine. During his career he has held posts at the Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and was Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times. He has taught dance history and published books on Margot Fonteyn and interviews with Matthew Bourne. He gave the New York Lincoln Kirstein Lecture on Ashton and Balanchine and is currently writing a book on the life and work of Merce Cunningham.