“Mr. B,” by Jennifer Homans, explores the life of the Russian-born choreographer, as well as the beauty and pains of his art. The choreographer George Balanchine backstage with one of his dancers in ...
Margaret Homans, newly named as the Bird White Housum Professor of English, focuses her research and teaching on literature that explores questions of gender, sexuality, power, and identity. As Homans ...
Ballet is dying. Maybe already dead. Impossible, you say, I’ve got tickets to a show! Alas, dear reader, I’ve just learned the grim diagnosis in Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans’ ...
Jennifer Homans has ruffled a few tutus with her history of ballet, in which she concludes that the art is dying. She talks to Jennifer McDonald IT is not the typical academic who studies the ...
Not quite everything is beautiful at the ballet, as the song from A Chorus Line would have us believe. In fact, there is real trouble amid the tutus, tiaras, and tunics these days, according to the ...
University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Peter Homans died Saturday, May 30 at a nursing home in Evanston. Homans, 78, had been suffering from the effects of a recent stroke. Homans, Professor ...
As a dancer-choreographer, Roberts has made astonishing work, but, since his retirement from the stage, his inspiration seems less sure-footed. In a piece loosely inspired by the Mahabharata, ...
John Homans is the reason I am at Vanity Fair. In 2017, John recruited me away from New York magazine, where he had been my editor from 2007–2014. I loved New York but the chance to reunite with John ...
The business leadership coalition will spend months searching for a replacement before Homans leaves this fall. Education and Immigration Editor The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of ...