Lecturer: Lynn Garafola - "The Rite of Spring and the Ballets Russes"

Lynn Garafola is a Professor of Dance at Barnard College. A historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev¿s Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World and other books, and curator of the New York Historical Society¿s exhibition Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, and several shows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, including New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World and, most recently, Diaghilev¿s Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath. She is currently working on a book about the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska.