Lynn Garafola is a dance historian and critic. Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College,
Columbia University, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Her latest book La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern is the first to document the full scope of Bronislava Nijinska’s creative work and rewrites the history of Euro-American ballet, beginning with Serge Diaghilev’s celebrated Ballets Russes in the early 20th century and continuing until the
1960s......