Jennifer Homans

Jennifer Homans is the dance critic for the New Yorker. Her widely acclaimed, bestselling Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. Trained in dance at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet, Homans danced professionally with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. She earned her BA at Columbia University and her PhD in modern European history at New York University, where she is a scholar in residence and the founding director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts.