Jennifer Homans.
jENNIFER HOMANS
mR b: GEORGE BALANCHINE’S TWENTIETH CENTURY (2022)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
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Jennifer Homans (born 1960) was trained as a ballerina from the age of eight and danced professionally with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. At the age of 26 she enrolled at Columbia University, where she obtained a BA in French Literature. She went on to obtain a PhD in Modern European Histsory at New York University. Following her PhD, Homans was appointed a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU and embarked on a career as an author on ballet. In 2014 she established the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Its aim is ‘to establish ballet as a serious subject of academic inquiry’.
