Deborah Jowitt (born 1934) is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer.
[3] From some time in the 1970s until 1994, the Voice had a page and a half for dance coverage: Jowitt contributed 1600 words or a full page of this, week after week, plus occasional features.
[5] In 2007, Jowitt's column in the Village Voice was increased in length to 3/4 page, having been earlier reduced to a half-page; in 2008, her position as dance critic was converted from full-time to freelance.
[6][7] She was a faculty member at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
[8][9] Her biography of the dancer Martha Graham, Errand into the Maze, was published in 2024.