Ballet Review

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| editor = Marvin Hoshino

| editor_title = Editor and Designer

| frequency = Quarterly

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| category = Dance, ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, criticism, interviews

| publisher = Dance Research Foundation, Inc.

| founded = 1965

| finaldate = 2020

| country = United States

| based = New York City

| language = English

| website = {{URL|http://www.balletreview.com}}

| issn = 0522-0653

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Ballet Review[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1900053 Ballet review. (Journal, magazine, 1965) [WorldCat.org]] was a print publication which covered all aspects of dance.{{cite book|author=Robert Greskovic|title=Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2COs6yh_LS0C&pg=PA605|date=October 2005|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-87910-325-5|page=605}}{{cite book|author1=Steven Belletto|author2=Daniel Grausam|title=American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqD7XCQJHn8C&pg=PA57|date=1 October 2012|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-60938-113-4|page=57}} It was published by the non-profit Dance Research Foundation, Inc.{{cite web|title=Dance Research Foundation|url=http://www.balletreview.com/danceresearchfoundation.html}}

While its name says "ballet," it also covered modern dance, contemporary dance, other choreography, and all kinds of folk dance including Asian traditions. It was noted for its carefully chosen contemporary and historical photographs; in-depth interviews with dancers, choreographers, and company directors; criticism and analyses; and reports of recent performances in New York City, in world capitals, and from around America.

Arlene Croce,{{cite book|author=Robert Gottlieb|title=Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CASVJ4B8izsC&pg=RA1-PR10|year=2008|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=978-0-375-42122-8|page=1}}{{cite book|author=James Wolcott|title=Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSNGUqw4jagC&pg=PA200|date=2 October 2012|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-7679-3062-8|page=200}} David Vaughan, and Robert Cornfield founded Ballet Review in 1965. Croce served as the publication's first editor.{{cite book|author1=Sally Banes|author2=Mikhail Baryshnikov|title=Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything was Possible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY-BBzFGOpAC&pg=PA165|year=2003|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-18014-0|page=165}} Vaughan continued to write for the magazine until 2016, and Cornfield was the magazine's second editor. In 1970 a nonprofit organization, the Dance Research Foundation, was created to oversee the publication of Ballet Review. The Foundation is also involved in research about dance and related arts. Francis Mason,MacAuley, Alastair. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/arts/dance/27mason.html "Francis Mason, Voice for Dance Over 5 Decades, Dies at 88"] co-author of Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets[http://www.balanchine.org/balanchine/bibliography.jsp "Bibliography]. Balanchine{{cite book|author=Robert Gottlieb|title=Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CASVJ4B8izsC&pg=RA1-PR7|year=2008|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=978-0-375-42122-8|page=1}} was editor from 1980 until his death in 2009.

In 2009, Marvin Hoshino,New York Times. [https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/marvin-hoshino-obituary?n=marvin-hoshino&pid=196480426 "Marvin Hoshino Obituary"] who had been the designer of Ballet Review since the 1980s, became the editor. Under Mr. Hoshino's leadership, Ballet Review expanded and in 2013 it began publishing its photographs in color.{{cite web|title=Marvin Hoshino (1947-2020)|url=http://www.balletreview.com/hoshino.html}} Mr. Hoshino continued to design the publication, and with his technical knowledge, astute eye, and masterful manipulation of color and tone, he firmly established Ballet Review as "The Premier Dance Journal."{{cite web|title=Ballet Review - The Premier Dance Journal|url=http://www.balletreview.com}} In May 2019, Ballet Review announced that it would be suspending publication, and in November 2019 it announced that it would be ceasing publication.{{cite web|title=Letter to Subscribers|url=http://www.balletreview.com/announcement.html|work=Ballet Review}} Ballet Review's final (double) issue, Volume 48, Numbers 1 & 2, "Spring-Summer 2020," was published in August 2020.