Mindy Aloff has taught dance criticism and history at Barnard College and serves as editor of the Dance Critics Association News and consultant to The George Balanchine Foundation. She is the author of Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance (2006) and Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation (2008). She edited Agnes de Mille's Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World (2011). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Robert Gottlieb is a writer, editor, critic, and an historian of dance. He has edited books by dance luminaries, served on the board of the New York City Ballet, and worked closely with George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. He has been editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker.
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