Jennifer Homans
Founder & Director
Jennifer Homans is the Dance Critic for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (2010). Homans was a professional dancer before completing a PhD in Modern European History at New York University, where she is now a Global Distinguished Professor, Van Cleef & Arpels Chair in the History of Dance, and the Founding Director of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU.
Read Jennifer’s interview on founding The Center by The New York Times.
Staff Members
Meredith Martin
Interim Director (2026-2027)
Meredith Martin is Professor of Art History at New York University and a founding editor of Journal18. A specialist in 18th-Century French art, architecture, and performance, she is the co-author (with Gillian Weiss) of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (2022), which is related to an exhibition she co-curated for the Institut du monde arabe in Paris. Martin is also the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (2011). At CBA, together with Phil Chan, she reimagined and restaged a lost 18th-Century ballet known as the “Ballet des Porcelaines” that premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021 and has toured throughout the U.S. in Europe. She is currently working on a collaborative, multimedia project that explores links between Haiti and the Paris art world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Andrea Salvatore
Executive Director
Andrea Salvatore is a nonprofit arts leader with over twenty years of experience collaborating with artists and scholars. In 2023 she founded Salvatore Arts Management to assist creatives with administrative, fundraising and production support. Andrea has held program development roles at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University and The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University. Prior arts management positions in fundraising, event planning, artist services and program management include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater and the Brooklyn Museum. She holds an M.A. from Georgetown University, a B.A. from Connecticut College, and an Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Management from NYU Wagner School.
Shoey Sun
Program Associate
Shoey Sun is the Program Associate at the Center for Ballet and the Arts. Prior to joining CBA, she worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer. She was awarded the 2018 Jadin Wong Fellowship from the Asian American Arts Alliance and received a CUNY Dance Initiative residency that same year for her work Neutral Ground. Her choreography has been presented at Movement Research, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, INSITU Dance Festival, Prattsville Art Center, Dixon Place and others. Shoey holds a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Chinese Language from New York University.
Advisory Council
- Ulrich Baer
- Michael Beckerman
- Vishakha Desai
- Leah Dickerman
- Elizabeth Diller
- Oskar Eustis
- William Forsythe
- John Guare
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Paul Holdengräber
- Nicholas Hytner
- Virginia Johnson
- Alonzo King
- Reynold Levy
- Lourdes Lopez
- John Mauceri
- Joseph V. Melillo
- Isaac Mizrahi
- Mark Morris
- Paul Muldoon
- Catherine Oppenheimer
- Simon Schama
- Arlene Shuler
- Ellen Sorrin
- Alistair Spalding
- Heather Watts
- Larry Wolff
Advisor Emeritus
- Frederick Wiseman, Filmmaker (1930-2026)
Supporters
The Center for Ballet and the Arts is made possible by founding and ongoing support from:
