Rupert Christiansen is currently dance critic for The Spectator. He was dance critic for the Mail on Sunday from 1995 to 2020, and has written on dance-focused subjects for many publications in the UK and USA, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review, Dance Now and Dance Theatre Journal. He was opera critic and arts correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from 1996 to 2020, and is the author of a dozen non-fiction books, including The Pocket Guide to Opera and The Complete Book of Aunts (both published by Faber). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and, since 2016, has been Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College, Oxford. He lives in London.

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Rupert Christiansen is currently dance critic for The Spectator. He was dance critic for the Mail on Sunday from 1995 to 2020, and has written on dance-focused subjects for many publications in the UK and USA, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review, Dance Now and Dance Theatre Journal. He was opera critic and arts correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from 1996 to 2020, and is the author of a dozen non-fiction books, including The Pocket Guide to Opera and The Complete Book of Aunts (both published by Faber). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and, since 2016, has been Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College, Oxford. He lives in London.

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