Username
Graham Watts
Email Address
graham@gmail.com
First Name
Graham
Last Name
Watts
Bio
Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Shinshokan Dance magazine (Japan), Bachtrack.com and DanceTabs.com. He has written the biography of Daria Klimentová (The Agony and the Ecstasy) and contributed chapters about the work of Akram Khan to the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet and on Shobana Jeyasingh for the third edition of Routledge’s Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. He is Chairman of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle and of the UK National Dance Awards and regularly lectures on dance writing and criticism at The Royal Academy of Dance and The Place. He was nominated for the Dance Writing Award in the 2018 One Dance UK Awards and was appointed OBE in 2008
