Dear friend of Arkadia, You are invited to ‘Balanchine and the Lost Muse’ by Elizabeth Kendall on Tuesday 20.12 at 6pm. Elizabeth has kindly accepted to talk about George Balanchine’s youth in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad and Finland), and about his classmate, the young gifted ballerina Lidiia Ivanova, who died (a possible murder) in 1924, 3 weeks before she would have left Russia with him and three other young dancers. The talk will be held in English. Welcome! Warm regards, Ian Bourgeot www.arkadiabookshop.fi –Entrance is free and green tea will be offered. A donation of €2 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. Elizabeth Kendall is associate Professor (tenured), Literary Studies Department/Writing, Eugene Lang College of New School University, New York City. 2005- Books: At work on Georges and Lidochka: Balanchine, Revolution and the Lost Muse, about George Balanchine, his ballerina classmate and collaborator, Lidiia Ivanova, and ballet, revolution and murder in Petrograd, Russia, 1904-1924, supported by fellowships from the Likhachev Foundation of St. Petersburg (2009), The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (2004-2005), and by a Fulbright Foundation research grant to St. Petersburg, Russia, fall semester, 2006. Autobiography of a Wardrobe, Pantheon, 2008; (Anchor/Vintage paperback, 2009). American Daughter, Random House, 2000; paperback on demand. The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the l930’s, Knopf, l990; Anchor-Doubleday, 199l; Cooper Square Press, 2002 – present. Where She Danced, Knopf, l979; University of California Press, 1984-2001. Articles: Contributing Editor, Dance Magazine, 1998 – present. Regular articles in Dance Magazine and Pointe Magazine. “Reflections (the Kirov),” in the New Yorker, June 8, l992. “Home to Russia: Dance Theater of Harlem in the USSR,” in Ballet Review, March, 1989. “Dancing: A Ford Foundation Report,” (monograph) December 1983. Regular articles on the performing arts, as columnist for Civilization magazine, 1998-99, until the magazine’s demise. Regular articles on dance, as dance critic for: Harper’s Bazaar, l99l-1995; Elle, l987-1991; Vogue, l982-1987; Ballet News, l977-1982. Articles, from l973 to the present, in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsday, Travel & Leisure, Elle, Vogue, RealSimple, Mirabella, Dance Magazine, H/G (House and Garden), Elle Decor, Seven Days, Dance Ink, The New Republic, Ballet Review, Dance Connection, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Stock Exchange Magazine, and other publications.