John Rockwell has been named as the new chief dance critic of The New York Times, replacing Anna Kisselgoff, who will continue to contribute to the paper. Rockwell is the author of several books, and has been the Times’ jack-of-all-trades over the years, serving as “chief rock critic, classical music critic, European cultural correspondent and Arts & Leisure editor. Most recently, he has been senior cultural correspondent and author of the Reverberations column in the Weekend section.”