{"id":672,"date":"2008-01-27T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp\/2008\/01\/the_author.html"},"modified":"2014-02-15T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T10:55:04","slug":"the_author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/2008\/01\/the_author.html","title":{"rendered":"David Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a writer and critic on performance, books and film and currently write for, among others, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/public\/sitesearch.do?querystring=%22david+jays%22&amp;sectionId=2&amp;p=sto&amp;bl=on&amp;pf=all\">Sunday Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/david-jays\">Guardian<\/a>. I edit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rad.org.uk\/more\/dance-gazette\">Dance Gazette<\/a>, the magazine of the Royal Academy of Dance. I&#8217;m also a lifelong Londoner:\u00a0it&#8217;s the perfect\u00a0city for connecting to art forms\u00a0that\u00a0both\u00a0look back and spring forward.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Writing on the arts began as a sideline, while I wasn&#8217;t finishing\u00a0an unfinished PhD. Many of my jobs were remarkably poorly paid. Some weren&#8217;t quite me &#8211; editing the movie section\u00a0for a glossy mag where the editor sighed that the Nazis had a great look was something of a low.<\/p>\n<p>I have also written for marvellous editors on magazines that are wonderfully committed to their subject, including Literary Review, Dancing Times and Sight &amp; Sound. And I graduated to grown-up papers: the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Observer and Guardian in the UK, plus occasional work for the\u00a0Washington Post and Toronto Globe &amp; Mail.<\/p>\n<p>I also edit stuff too &#8211; lots of theatre programmes in the past, and currently Dance Gazette. Making discoveries, encountering new artists and works, discussing subjects with enthusiasts and drawing on their enthusiasm &#8211; it&#8217;s been a continuing, enlivening education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a writer and critic on performance, books and film and currently write for, among others, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. I edit Dance Gazette, the magazine of the Royal Academy of Dance. I&#8217;m also a lifelong Londoner:\u00a0it&#8217;s the perfect\u00a0city for connecting to art forms\u00a0that\u00a0both\u00a0look back and spring forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}