FRI FEB 24 at NOON-1PM
ROBLE GYM LOUNGE
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History; the ​​Department of History; The Europe Center; Center for Russia, East European, and Eurasian Studies

 

Join us for a conversation with dance critic, author, and scholar Jennifer Homans on her new book, Mr B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022), named one of the best books of the year by the The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily, and longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award. Moderated by Sariel Golomb.

ABOUT JENNIFER HOMANS

Jennifer Homans is the Dance Critic for The New Yorker and the author of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022), and Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (2010), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the editor of When the Facts Change (2015), a collection of writings by her late husband, Tony Judt. Homans was a professional dancer and performed with the Pacific Northwest Ballet before earning a BA at Columbia University and a PhD in Modern European History at New York University, where she is now a Distinguished Scholar in Residence and the Founding Director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts. https://balletcenter.nyu.edu/ Headshot by Brigitte Lacombe.