Olesia Novikova: check her out

has written dance journalism and criticism since 1976, published most notably in Dance Magazine, Soho News, The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Gay City News, and on her own blog, InfiniteBody.

is a regular contributor to Danceviewtimes and San Francisco magazine, and has contributed to many other publications. He was a Rhodes Scholar same time as Bill Clinton. He lives and dances in Berkeley.

--A featurette on the Jaurena tango family, at Thalia Spanish Theatre through March 23

--in New York magazine, an essay on La Vishneva, character and creator in one.

--the spirit of ISH: the Belgian Filipino founder of the Holland youth empire explains in a short feature on the troupe's appearance at the Staller Center in Stony Brook, Long Island

--a Newsday profile of Paul Taylor dancer Michael Trusnovec, with slide show!

--a featurette on the Perm Ballet's newly refurbished and lovely "Romeo and Juliet," touring the hinterlands

--a review of Mark Morris's staging of Purcell's "King Arthur," at New York City Opera through March 15

--a preview feature of the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre's "Carmen," at Stony Brook, LI, March 16, and other places hither and thither

--a preview of two puppet shows: Basil Twist's "Petrushka" and the Hudson Vagabond's Beatrix Potter ballets