# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-acocella
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:38:40.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-acocella"
name: "Joan Acocella"
slug: "joan-acocella"
description: "Joan Barbara Acocella was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was a dance critic for The New Yorker. She also wrote for The New York Review of Books for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology."
tagline: "American journalist, dance critic and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Acocella_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1945-04-13"
deathDate: "2024-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.277466666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Акочелла, Джоан"
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    title: "Ջոան Ակոսելլա"
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    title: "جان ایکوسیلا"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump