Asked to introduce herself, Tobi Tobias said, "My writing is my 'letter to the world.'" Tobi Tobias, an internationally known dance writer, is the New York dance critic for Bloomberg News. She also writes about dance in New York for Voice of Dance.
Much of her work appeared in Dance magazine (where she also edited the criticism for nearly a decade) and in New York magazine (where she served as the journal’s dance critic for 22 years). She has also reviewed dance regularly for the Village Voice and written feature stories for the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times.
Her involvement with dance has extended to major oral history projects as well as writing for the public television series Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center. In 1992, she was awarded a Danish knighthood in recognition of her extensive writing and oral history project on the Royal Danish Ballet and its Bournonville tradition.
Her dance writing of recent years is archived on Seeing Things, her site at ArtsJournal, where she also writes reviews, features, and essays originally done for that site. There she has just inaugurated a series called Personal Indulgences, which are sometimes about dance, sometimes not.
In the course of a parallel career in writing for children, she has published over two dozen books, most recently Wishes for You (2003), Serendipity (2000), and A World of Words (1999). For adults she written Obsessed by Dress (2000), a meditation on clothes. She also writes about vintage objects, chiefly in the realms of fashion, photography, and designs for living.
