Robert Greskovic

Lecturer in Theater and Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Robert Greskovic covers dance for The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is a free-lance writer; his Ballet 101: The Complete Guide To Learning and Loving the Ballet was published in 1998 by Hyperion. He has been writing about dance since 1972. He is Associate at Ballet Review, Consulting Editor for DanceView, and a moderator of the Videos and Ballet History topics on the website Ballettalk.com. He is New York correspondent for Dance International, dance essayist for Britannica Book of the Year, as well as New York correspondent for DanceMagazine Shinshokan/Japan and ballet-tanz. He has taught dance history at City University of New York, Hunter College, and Sarah Lawrence College. He has lectured on dance for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, at the Carlisle Project, and at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He taught a dance history seminar at Princeton University in 2004. He served as Consulting Editor for The Best Book Ever of Ballet (Larousse Kingfisher Chambers) and wrote the Afterword for Balanchine’s Pointework, (Studies in Dance History, No. 11), in addition to assisting its author. He served as consulting editor for Baryshnikov: in Black and White (Bloomsbury). He has been part of numerous panel discussions and conferences for such organizations as the Dance Critics Association and Columbia University’s Harriman Institute of Foreign Affairs. He has conducted public interviews with Zingaro’s Bartabas, Yvette Chauviré, Janine Charrat, Mark Morris and with several artists presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was part of an international conference on Bronislava Nijinska at Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia. He twice served as a panelist for the Dance Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, and also served as an auditor of applicants for the New York State Council on the Arts. A collection of essays on dance videos was published in a booklet by DanceView. His dance reviews and feature stories have appeared in the Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and other publications.