Dale Harris; New York Dance and Music Critic

Dale Harris, 68, New York-based dance, music and arts critic and lecturer. Born to a working-class family in rural England, Harris served both in the Royal Navy and, after emigrating to the United States, in the U.S. Army. Upon his release from the Army, he enrolled at Columbia University and later Harvard, graduating with honors in 1958. He taught English at Stanford University until 1970, when he returned to the East Coast and began lecturing, teaching and writing arts criticism. He was a contributing editor to the Saturday Review, writing primarily on dance, and was a dance critic for the Wall Street Journal. He was also a music critic for the New York Post and lectured throughout the country on subjects ranging from opera to Postimpressionistic art. On Thursday in New York of complications of AIDS.