As a keynote text for the “Why criticism?” debates to be presented by tanzschreiber and streamed online by Radialsystem in Berlin, Sanjoy Roy recounts how the current pandemic has led him to reflect on reviewing, to find renewed value in (a)live performance – and to search for the life within writing
Continue reading “Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing”Sanjoy Roy
(London, UK) has been writing on dance for the Guardian since 2002, and is founder-editor of Springback Magazine, launched in 2018 by Aerowaves Europe. He has contributed to other publications including the New York Times, New Statesman, Dance Gazette, Pulse and Dancing Times, and is London correspondent for Dance International magazine. He studied contemporary dance at Laban, London, after which he was production editor and designer at Dance Books Ltd for 10 years. He keeps an online archive of published writing at sanjoyroy.net.
