Alan M. Kreigsman, 84 (obit from The Washington Post)

Carbonneau said Mr. Kriegsman was not didactic in his writing, nor did he enter a performance with preconceived ideas about how an artist should interpret a work. “Mike was always willing to turn himself over imaginatively to whatever a work was and to see what this particular work had to say to us,” she said.

Alan M. Kriegsman, Pulitzer-winning dance critic for The Post, dies at 84
by Adam Bernstein,The Washington Post, September 1, 2012