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Edited by dance scholar and exhibition curator Lynn Garafola and historian Eric Foner, this text takes a look at the history of America's premier ballet company, placing it within the context of the city's changing intellectual and cultural life. Drawing on the perspectives of dance scholars, urbanists, musicologiest, art historians and scholars of gay history, the book reveals the complex forces that contributed to the company's success.

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First-rate... You may want to buy two copies of Dance for a City, one for reading and the other for clipping and framing. -- Terry Teachout New York Times Book Review Lynn Garafola, a dance historian who was curator of the show with her husband, Eric Foner, professor of history at Columbia University, has done an admirable job of assembling material, some of it unfamiliar, from a vast variety of sources. -- Anna Kisselgoff New York Times Illuminated from many angles, clear sighted, lavish, and enjoyably appreciative of its subject. -- Doug Elder Boston Book Review Captures the beauty and reverie of the world of dance that ballet itself evokes. Garafola and Foner have compiled a lovely and interesting look at this amazing company and its lush history... This lovely volume pleases the eye and the mind. -- Michael Spinella Booklist A visually eloquent collection. -- Glen Giffin Dance Magazine

First-rate... You may want to buy two copies of Dance for a City, one for reading and the other for clipping and framing. -- Terry Teachout, New York Times Book Review Lynn Garafola, a dance historian who was curator of the show with her husband, Eric Foner, professor of history at Columbia University, has done an admirable job of assembling material, some of it unfamiliar, from a vast variety of sources. -- Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times Illuminated from many angles, clear sighted, lavish, and enjoyably appreciative of its subject. -- Doug Elder, Boston Book Review Captures the beauty and reverie of the world of dance that ballet itself evokes. Garafola and Foner have compiled a lovely and interesting look at this amazing company and its lush history... This lovely volume pleases the eye and the mind. -- Michael Spinella, Booklist A visually eloquent collection. -- Glen Giffin, Dance Magazine

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Lynn Garafola is a feature writer and critic for Dance Magazine, the author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the former editor of the book series Studies in Dance History.Eric Foner is professor of history at Columbia University and the author of many books, most recently The Story of American Freedom.

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