Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is a poet, critic and performer who works as a columnist for ARTFORUM→ and writes about books and theater for The New York Times; prior to that she worked as a dance and theater critic for the paper from 2005-2013. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press and freelance journalist for various visual art and literary publications. She founded thePerformanceClub.org, which won a 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and focuses on criticism as a literary art form, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Criticism and Writing program.

Publications

• 2014. The Best Most Useless Dress. Badlands Unlimited
• 2015. I Don't Poem: An Anthology of Painters. Off the Park Press
• 2015. Dancers, Buildings, People in the Streets. Danspace Project

External links

• New York Times website
• Claudia La Rocco's blog