
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. Acocella is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker.Īcocella received her B.A. Her New Yorker article "Cather and the Joan B. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1992 and was appointed dance critic in 1998. Her writing also appears regularly in the New York Review of Books. Acocella has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for the Financial Times.

Acocella is a 2012 Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Acocella is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker.
