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CBA brings to the art of ballet and its related arts new ideas and the full resources of a major research university.

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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.

The Center for Ballet
and the Arts

CBA Fellows and guests enjoy a bright, spacious dance studio, two conference rooms, private offices, and an open presentation space all in the heart of downtown Manhattan.

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The Center for Ballet and the Arts
New York University

20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

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Team

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.

Christen Douresseau

is the Assistant Director of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University. She holds a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing from New York University.

Shoey Sun

is the Program Associate at the Center for Ballet and the Arts. Before CBA, she was a freelance dancer and choreographer. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Chinese Language from New York University.

Audrey Pettit

is the Program Assistant at the Center for Ballet and the Arts. She is a Ph.D. student in English at New York University and holds a B.A. in English from Barnard College.

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

The Center for Ballet and the Arts is made possible by founding and ongoing support from:

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