Mindy Aloff

Biography

Mindy Aloff is a prize-winning essayist, dance critic, and scholar. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, the New Republic, the Jewish Daily Forward, and many other periodicals. A former fellow of the Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson foundations, she is a member of the Dance faculty at Barnard College. (Drawing by Jorge Vargas)

See Work

CRITICISM / Winter 2013

Disney’s Snow White at 75

By Mindy Aloff

When Disney’s Snow White was given its theatrical première, at the Carthay Circle Theatre, in Los Angeles, on December 21, 1937, the capacity house of 1,500 seats was filled by the likes of Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas...
CRITICISM / Fall 2012

The Kerouac Voice

By Mindy Aloff

Once upon a time in America, five dollars would buy enough gas to drive from Tucson, Arizona, to California. This was during the postwar 1940s, when Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady were making the cross-country road trips, at speeds over a...