Claudia La Rocco,

Poet and Critic

Claudia La Rocco writes about performance for the New York Times, is an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail, and has written for many other outlets, including Artforum, Classical TV and Musical America. From 2008 to 2010, she served as a cultural critic for WNYC New York Public Radio, where she created the social and online Performance Club. She has taught and lectured at a variety of settings, including Arizona State University, the Springdance/festival in the Netherlands and the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Dance at the American Dance Festival. She is a member of the Off The Park poetry press, where she is currently editing an anthology of poems by painters, and reads regularly in New York.

Education:

• Bowdoin College, English

Teaching experience includes:

• NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Dance
• the Springdance/festival in the Netherlands
• Long Island University
• Dance Theater Workshop
• Smith College
• Arizona State University

Contributing editor:

• The Brooklyn Rail

Other publications:

• Stringer: The New York Times
• Cultural Critic: WNYC New York Public Radio
• founded the WNYC Performance Club
• Classical TV
• Musical America
• Artforum
• failbetter.com
• Member of: Off the Park Press



Exhibitions:

Collaborations with visual artists have been shown in:

• High Desert Test Sites 5 in Joshua Tree
• California; Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn;
• Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel