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Lynn Garafola
Professor of Dance
Lynn Garafola, professor of dance, joined the Barnard faculty in 2003. She is a dance historian and critic whose articles have been published in Dance Magazine, The Nation, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is also the former editor of the book series "Studies in Dance History."
Professor Garafola served as guest curator of the exhibition "Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet" at the New-York Historical Society. Her other exhibitions have included "500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection" (with Patrizia Veroli) and "New York Story: Jerome Robbins and his World," both at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Currently, Professor Garafola is working on a new exhibition, "Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath." The show will take place at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts beginning in June 2009, and will mark the centenary of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, one of the most important ballet companies – if not the most important company – of the twentieth century.
Professor Garafola is a former Getty Scholar and the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanties. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Publications
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance (Wesleyan University Press, 2005)
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, editor (with E. Foner) (Columbia University Press, 1999)
José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, editor (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999)
The Ballets Russes and Its World, editor (Yale University Press, 1999)
Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet, editor (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1997)
"Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s," editor, Studies in Dance History 5(1) (Spring 1994)
"The Diaries of Marius Petipa," editor and translator, Studies in Dance History 3(1) (Spring 1992)
André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties, editor, with J. Acocella (Wesleyan University Press, 1991)
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Oxford University Press, 1989)
EDUCATION:
A.B., Barnard College
M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Dance history
Criticism
Research