Elizabeth Kendall (historian)
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Born | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | April 7, 1947
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1981) |
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Discipline | History |
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Institutions | The New School |
Elizabeth Bemis Kendall (born April 7, 1947) is an American academic, television writer, and journalist. After working as a writer for the PBS show Great Performances and an editor for Ballet Review, she published several books – particularly Where She Danced (1979), The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1992), and Balanchine and the Lost Muse (2013) – mostly focusing on dance history. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at The New School.[1]
Biography
[edit]Elizabeth Bemis Kendall was born on April 7, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri.[2] Her parents were Betty (née Conant) and falconer Henry Cochran Kendall.[3] On April 3, 1969, she and her mother were injured when the station wagon she was driving crashed into an abutment on U.S. Route 61; her mother died from her injuries afterwards.[4]
She received her Bachelor of Arts (1969) at Radcliffe College and Master of Arts in Teaching in Language and Literature (1971) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[2][1] After working as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow (1975-1976), she wrote two 1977 episodes of Great Performances: "Pilobolus Dance Theater" and "Trailblazers of Modern Dance".[2] In 1979, she published the dance history book Where She Danced, became a contributor for Ballet News and a contributing editor for Ballet Review.[2] She was an administrator for the NYIH's Culture of Cities program (1979-1981), and she was a New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH) Fellow (1980-1982), and Ford Foundation fellow (1980-1982).[2]
In 1981, Kendall was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of Hollywood lyric comedy in the 1930's",[2] and she later published The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s in 1992.[1] In 2000, she published her memoir American Daughter.[3] In 2008, she published Autobiography of a Wardrobe, a memoir of herself from the perspective of her own attire.[5] In 2013, she published Balanchine and the Lost Muse, a book on the relationship between ballet choreographer George Balanchine and ballet dancer Lidia Ivanova.[6]
She was also a National Arts Journalism Program Senior Fellow (2002-2003), a New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellow (2004-2005), a Likhachev Foundation Fellow (2009), and a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow (2011-2012).[1]
As an academic, she specializes in non-fiction, Russian culture in the early-20th century, and history of clothing and textiles.[1] At New School, she has taught classes on non-fiction, general literature, and cultural history.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- Where She Danced (1979)[7][8][9]
- The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1992)[10][11][12]
- American Daughter (2000, memoir)
- Autobiography of a Wardrobe (2008)
- Balanchine and the Lost Muse (2013)[13][14][15][16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Elizabeth Kendall". The New School for Social Research. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1981. p. 57.
- ^ a b "American Daughter by Elizabeth Kendall". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
- ^ "One Killed in Area Accidents". Sikeston Daily Standard. April 4, 1969. p. 15. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ "Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
- ^ La Rocco, Claudia (July 29, 2013). "Choreographer's Crucible: Friendship and Tragedy". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ Hardy, Camille (1980). "Review of Where She Danced". Dance Research Journal. 12 (2): 38–41. doi:10.2307/1478514. ISSN 0149-7677 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Mini-reviews". Sandusky Sunday Register. United Press International. July 1, 1979. pp. D-11. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Odom, Selma Landen (August 4, 1979). "BOOKS WHERE SHE DANCED BY ELIZABETH KENDALL THE SHAPES OF CHANGE Images of American Dance". The Globe and Mail. p. 39. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Dunbar, Robert (1991). "Review of The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy in the 1930s". Cinéaste. 18 (4): 56–57. ISSN 0009-7004 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Jacobs, Diane (November 4, 1990). "Sex, Silliness and Happy Endings". New York Times. pp. BR9. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (November 20, 1990). "30's Romantic Comedy And Deep Implications". New York Times. pp. C19. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Harris, Andrea (2014). Kendall, Elizabeth (ed.). "Uncovering Balanchine, Recovering Ivanova". Dance Chronicle. 37 (1): 118–121. ISSN 0147-2526 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Jordan, Stephanie A. (2015). "Review of Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer". Music & Letters. 96 (1): 145–147. ISSN 0027-4224 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Morris, Geraldine (2014). "Review of Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer, Kendall, Elizabeth". The Slavonic and East European Review. 92 (3): 547–549. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0547. ISSN 0037-6795 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Smith, Marian (2014). "Review of Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer". Slavic Review. 73 (4): 961–962. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.73.4.961. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American historians
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- American women historians
- American film historians
- Dance historians
- Historians of Russia
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
- The New School faculty
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American women journalists
- American television writers
- American women television writers
- American magazine editors
- American women magazine editors
- Educators from St. Louis
- Writers from St. Louis