BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2011 – 2012

Elizabeth Kendall

For a biography of George Balanchine and the ballerina Lidiia Ivanova

Elizabeth Kendall is the author of two cultural histories, Where She Danced, the Birth of American Art Dance, and The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s; and two memoirs, American Daughter and Autobiography of a Wardrobe. She is a professor at The New School’s Eugene Lang College and its Liberal Studies Program, and a contributing editor for Dance Magazine. As a Leon Levy fellow she worked on a dual biography of George Balanchine and the ballerina Lidiia Ivanova, Balanchine and the Lost Muse, published by Oxford in 2013.