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Artists
CBA brings to the art of ballet and its related arts new ideas and the full resources of a major research university.
CBA is the first institute of its kind in a major research university. It exists to address the dual needs of innovation in both the study and practice of ballet, by uniting the two to further the advancement of both.
Scholars
CBA brings ballet into the university as a serious subject of study and research – to define it as a field in the history of culture.
CBA is the first institute of its kind in a major research university. It exists to address the dual needs of innovation in both the study and practice of ballet, by uniting the two to further the advancement of both.
Team
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.
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
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
- Frederick Wiseman
- Larry Wolff
Supporters
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