About Jennifer
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 and the Founding Director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Select Recent Publications:
Jennifer Homans, “Alexei Ratmansky’s Dance for the War in Ukraine,” The New Yorker, October 24, 2022 Issue (October 17, 2022)
Jennifer Homans, “George Balanchine’s Soviet Reckoning,” The New Yorker, September 12, 2022 Issue (September 5, 2022)
Jennifer Homans, “Hail Balanchine,” The New York Review of Books (December 21, 2017)
Jennifer Homans, “Agon: ‘The Acute Edge of Risk’,” The New York Review of Books (May 12, 2016)
Jennifer Homans, “Balanchine: Making & Being Don Quixote,” The New York Review of Books, no. 10 (June 4, 2015)
Jennifer Homans, “In Balanchine’s Beautiful Forest,” The New York Review of Books, no. 4 (March 5, 2015)