Joan Jacobson has been a Baltimore journalist for more than 40 years. While writing news stories for the Baltimore Evening Sun in the 1970’s and 80's, on everything from crime, to obituaries, to investigative stories on government corruption, she also became the newspaper’s dance critic. For more than a decade, she wrote about the companies and choreographers of Baltimore’s vibrant dance scene, covering such groups as the Maryland Ballet, Path Dance Company, Phoenix Repertory Dance Company and the Naked Feet Dance Company. She also reviewed performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. of internationally known companies like the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. In addition, she interviewed and wrote profiles of such legendary artists and choreographers as Agnes de Mille and Mikhail Baryshnikov and of prima ballerinas Natalia Makarova and Cynthia Gregory.