Anthology Deborah Jowitt
Deborah Jowitt came to dance criticism from a career as a performer and choreographer. Her first reviews appeared on a weekly program, 'The Critical People' on listener sponsored radio (WBAI) in New York. The Village Voice, for which she began writing a column in 1967, is an alternative "downtown" weekly (now free) in New York. From sometimes in the 1970s through 1994, she was allotted an entire page (1600 words) in the paper; others writers contributed to an additional half page. (The dance section as a a whole is now only one page.) She has also written scholarly essays for journals and books, as well as feature articles for the Voice and for daily newspapers, such as the New York Times.
Sarma archived her 1977 collection, Dance Beat, as well as other reviews written between 1967 and 1977.