What makes a great artist great? This is the question that biographies of such figures hope to answer. The question takes on a particular charge in relation to the artist’s formative years. Prompted ...

Mindy Aloff is a consultant to the George Balanchine Foundation. Her writing on dance has appeared in many publications internationally. The birth of George Balanchine (1904-83), one of the most ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a better match for Balanchine for this entry in the Eminent Lives series than Gottlieb, the distinguished editor and dance critic who for years was on the board of ...

The first part of “Mr B”, Jennifer Homans’s engrossing (and occasionally exhausting) biography of George Balanchine, is a journey across the political and cultural landscape of the early 20th century.