Sarah Kaufman
Sarah Kaufman
Critic

Sarah Kaufman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has been The Washington Post’s dance critic since 1996. But after logging serious sit-time in opera houses, church basements, fairground tents and lawn chairs, what moves her most is seeing grace happen where she least expects it

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Blue Angels at Andrews

In Mildred Holt, Johnny Carson met his match

In Mildred Holt, Johnny Carson met his match

Drinking a highball and wearing pearls, my great-grandmother tickled “Tonight Show” host in 1987, becoming his oldest guest ever.

Cliches burden Washington Ballet’s ‘Noche’

Cliches burden Washington Ballet’s ‘Noche’

There were many cliches in the uneven “Noche Latina” from the Washington Ballet. But Luis R. Torres danced remarkably.

‘First Position’: Dancers at a breaking point

‘First Position’: Dancers at a breaking point

The witty, gorgeously rendered “First Position” documentary follows several hopefuls at a ballet competition, but doesn’t tell the full story about Odenton, Md. native Rebecca Houseknecht.