NEW YORK, NY, September 02, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Nancy Reynolds with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Reynolds celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Ms. Reynolds is a former professional ballet dancer, dance researcher and archivist, and the director of research and video archives for the George Balanchine Foundation. Early dance lessons with the noted ballerina Tanaquil le Clercq inspired her to pursue a career as a professional ballet dancer. After intensive study at the School of American Ballet, one of the world's top dance academies, in 1957 she was invited to join the New York City Ballet, where she danced for five years under the direction of George Balanchine, arguably the greatest ballet choreographer of the twentieth century. She then enrolled at Columbia University's School of General Studies, graduating with a degree in art history (ØBK) in 1965. She pursued further study at the Goethe Institut in Prien, Germany, the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Chicago, and Sarah Lawrence College. Switching focus, she began a new career at Praeger Publishers, where her breakout assignment was as editor of Movement and Metaphor by Lincoln Kirstein, General Director of the New York City Ballet, who became an important mentor. In 1971, electing to continue her writing career as an independent scholar and author, she began her first book, Repertory in Review: Forty Years of the New York City Ballet, which was issued in 1977 to laudatory reviews. The book was winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize for best new publication in the emerging field of dance history. Reynolds followed this with other books devoted to dance history, culminating in the 900-page No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century, co-authored with Malcom McCormick. Published by Yale University Press in 2003, the book was issued in paperback in 2020. Simultaneously with her writing activities Reynolds served as research director for Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works, the first catalogue raisonné devoted to the output of a choreographer (Eakins Press Foundation, 1983). She was also an associate editor of the six-volume International Encyclopedia of Dance, published by Oxford University Press in 1998. A postlude to her publishing career was her editing of Remembering Lincoln in 2007, in honor of her late mentor (Ballet Society).
Reynolds's extensive bibliography includes articles on various dance subjects, including "Dancing on Balanchine's Stages" (on Arthur Mitchell, the New York City Ballet's first African-American principal dancer), "Bringing Balanchine Home," on Balanchine's return to Russia after 38 years, and "Aboard the Royal Swedish Ballet Jubilee Express" in observance of that company's 225th anniversary. She continued to write and publish books and journal articles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1994 Reynolds accepted the newly created position of Director of Research at The George Balanchine Foundation, where she conceived and continues to direct the George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives, a series devoted to capturing on video the recollections of major veteran dancers on whom Balanchine created his important choreography, as they coach today's dancers in the nuances of his intentions at the time of creation. Among the participating dance luminaries have been Maria Tallchief, Frederic Franklin, Alicia Markova, Alicia Alonso, Peter Martins, Suzanne Farrell, Jacques d'Amboise, Violette Verdy, Patricia McBride, Paloma Herrera, Angel Corella, Edward Villella, Merrill Ashley, and many others. As of 2021, the series comprised over 60 programs.
Reynolds is a grantee of the Ford Foundation and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and is the recipient of both a 2012 Dance Critics Association Special Award for Dance Writing ("Calliope") and, in 2013, a New York Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance ("Bessie"). She was president of the board of the Dance Critics Association in 1986 and has also served on the boards of The George Balanchine Foundation and of Teatro Grattacielo, a group whose focus is Italian verismo opera. She remains affiliated with a number of professional organizations, including the Dance Studies Association, the Society for Dance Research, the American Society for Theatre Research and the International Federation for Theatre Research.
Reynolds's first marriage, to publishing executive Gilman Park, ended in divorce. She then married Brian Norman Rushton, a graphic designer and executive at the Tate Gallery of London and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He died in 2005. Reynolds makes her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Her son, Ehren P. Reynolds, a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, resides with his family in Washington, DC.
Books
Remembering Lincoln (ed.). New York: Ballet Society, 2007.
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century (co-author Malcolm McCormick). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003; paperback 2020. [Finalist, Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Award, 2004.] [Congress on Research in Dance, Outstanding Publication in Dance Research, 2005.]
Dance Classics: A Viewer's Guide to the Best-Loved Ballets and Modern Dances. Chicago: Chicago Review Press (A Capella), 1991. [New York Public Library recommended reading for teenagers, 1992.] [Dance Book Club, selection, 1992.]
Ballet: Bias and Belief, "Three Pamphlets Collected" and Other Dance Writings of Lincoln Kirstein. With introduction and comments by Nancy Reynolds. Brooklyn, NY: Dance Horizons, 1983.
Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. New York: Eakins Press, 1983; Viking, 1984. Research Director. Electronic edition, revised and updated, New York: The George Balanchine Foundation, 2008. Editorial Director. [First catalogue raisonné for a choreographer.] www.balanchine.org
In Performance: A Companion to the Classics of the Dance (co-author Susan Reimer-Torn). New York: Harmony, 1980.
The Dance Catalog: A Complete Guide to Today's World of Dance. New York: Harmony, 1979.
Repertory in Review: Forty Years of the New York City Ballet. New York: Dial, 1977. [De la Torre Bueno prize.]
Articles in Books
"Balanchine: Stage and Screen," in Balanchine 100. New York City Ballet, 2004.
"The George Balanchine Foundation," in Costas, ed. and photos, Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance. Windsor, CT: Tide-Mark Press, 2003.
"Two Worlds of Balanchine," in Judy Mitoma, ed., Envisioning Dance in Film and Video. New York: Routledge, 2002.
"Inside Artistry: The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives," in Stephanie Jordan, ed., Preservation Politics: Dance Revived, Reconstructed, Remade. London: Dance Books, 2000.
"Listening to Balanchine," in Lynn Garafola. ed., Dance for a City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
"In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein," in Lynn Garafola and Nancy Baer, eds., The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. [Reprinted in Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright, eds., Moving History/Dancing Cultures. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.]
Articles in Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Web
"New York" (review of "Royal Danish Ballet: Principals and Soloists," Joyce Theater, New York, January 13-18, 2015). Ballet Review 44.1 (Spring 2016).
"A Challenging Pas de Deux" (book review of Dancing Across the Atlantic: USA-Denmark 1900-2014 by Erik Aschengreen). Ballet Review 43.4 (Winter 2015-2016).
"The Balanchine Foundation Video Archives: Jacques d'Amboise coaches 'Who Cares?'" Dance View Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2014).
"A Personal Remembrance" (remarks delivered at a Tribute to Maria Tallchief Paschen [1925-2013], New York Library for the Performing Arts, October 2, 2013). Ballet Review 42.2 (Summer 2014). [Reprinted in Mindy Aloff, ed., Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology. New York, NY: Library of America, 2018.]
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet by Jenifer Ringer (book review). Washington Independent Review of Books, March 17, 2014.
Portrait of Murdock Pemberton: The New Yorker's first Art Critic by Sally Pemberton (book review). Washington Independent Review of Books, January 27, 2012.
"When Balanchine Went Home: Dancers Remember New York City Ballet's Historic 1962 Tour." Dance Magazine, August 2012.
"Alexandra Danilova," in America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures. (Dance Heritage Coalition, 2012). Web.
"New York City Ballet," in America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures. (Dance Heritage Coalition, 2012). Web.
"Diaghilev's Example: The Case of Balanchine." Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture 17 (2011).
René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum (book review). Washington Independent Review of Books, July 28, 2011.
"Capturing Balanchine:Video Documentation Preserves History and Benefits Dancers [La Source]." Dance Studio Life, March/April 2011.
"Taping the Siren: Yvonne Mounsey Coaches 'Prodigal Son' for the Balanchine Archive Project." Dance View Vol. 26, No. 4 (Autumn 2009).
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman (book review). The Dancing Times (London) Vol. 98, No. 1166 (October 2007).
"Lincoln Kirstein, As Others Saw Him." Playbill (May 2007).
"Fair Francia: A Tribute to Francia Russell and Kent Stowell." Pacific Northwest Ballet, June 12, 2005.
"Celebrating Serenade at 70." The Dancing Times (London), Vol. 94, No. 1126 (June 2004).
"Forever Balanchine: A Conference Report." The Dancing Times (London), Vol. 94, No. 1121 (January 2004).
"The Last Waltz [La Valse]." Stagebill, February 2001. Reprinted in Robert Gottlieb, ed. and intro., Reading Dance. New York: Pantheon, 2008.
"How a Balanchine Masterpiece Got to Russia [Jewels]." New York Times, February 2000.
"Aboard the Royal Swedish Ballet Jubilee Express," Ballet Review XXVI, 4 (Winter 1998).
"In Memoriam: Lincoln Kirstein." Dance Chronicle, Vol. 19, No. 3 (1996).
"A Conversation with Alan Good." Ballet Review XXIV, 3 (Fall 1996).
"Dame Alicia and the Rossignol of '95." Ballet Review XXIII, 4 (Winter 1995).
"'Romeo' Revisited [Pacific Northwest Ballet]." Dance Chronicle, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1995).
"A Conversation with Emma Diamond." Ballet Review XXIII, 3 (Fall 1995).
"Finding Lost Balanchine." Ballet Review, 4 (Winter 1994).
"Julio Gonzalez Drew his Sculpture in Iron." Dance Ink, Fall 1994.
"Balanchine in the U.S.S.R.: Cultural Revelation." Dance Magazine, January 1994.
"San Francisco Ballet's Leap of Faith." Town & Country, April 1993.
"Dance Medicine: Special Care for Special Needs" [Harkness Center for Dance Injuries]. Dance Magazine, November 1992.
"George Balanchine." Intro and Allegro, NAPAC Dance Company [program], Durban, South Africa, October 1992.
"The Red Curtain" [Balanchine in the Soviet Union 1962]. Society of Dance History Scholars Proceedings, February 1992.
"Malinky Glasnost in Amsterdam." Ballet Review XVII, 2 (Fall 1989). [With author photographs.]
"East Meets West in Amsterdam: Student Days in Holland." Dance Magazine, November 1989. [With author photographs.]
"The Kirov Claims Its Balanchine Legacy." New York Times, March 5, 1989. Reprinted Seattle Weekly, March 22, 1989; Dance Alive! (Vancouver, B.C.), June 1989.
"Setting Balanchine in Leningrad." Ballet Review XVII, 2 (Summer 1989). [With author photographs.]
"An Introduction to Eighteen Balanchine Ballets." Dance Notation Journal VI (Winter/Spring 1988-89).
"Celebrating The Four Temperaments: A Symposium." Ballet Review XVI, 1 (Spring 1988).
"On Its Toes: Ballet Medicine." Encyclopaedia Britannica Medical Health Annual, 1988.
"Robert Joffrey: The Present Past." Dance Notation Bureau Joffrey Award Program, Spring 1987.
"Training for the Profession: Behind the Scenes at the Prix de Lausanne." Dance Magazine, May 1986.
"Clarion Takes Shape." ArtsLine (Seattle), April 1986.
"The Choreography of Medicine and Dance" [Dr.William G. Hamilton, orthopedic consultant to the New York City Ballet]. Medical Heritage, January-February 1986.
"Veteran in the Vanguard" [Village Vanguard's Max Gordon]. Connoisseur, September 1985.
"Lady of the Lamp" [lighting designer Jennifer Tipton]. Connoisseur, February 1985.
"Lincoln Kirstein." Playbill, January-February 1984.
"Balanchine in Seattle." ArtsLine (Seattle), April 1984.
"Primary Source" [School of American Ballet]. Ballet News, January 1984.
"Staging Balanchine's Ballets: Symposium." Ballet Review XI, 3 (Fall 1983).
"Documenting Mr. B." [Balanchine catalogue raisonné]. The Dancing Times (London), Vol. LXXII, No. 873 (June 1983).
"Winter at Thirty: New York City Ballet." Ballet Review VII, 2-3 (1978-79).
"Major Ballet Choreographers" and "Major Works from the Ballet Repertory." Dance of the Twentieth Century [catalogue]. New York: Pictura Dance, 1978.
"A Note on George Balanchine." Brighton [England] Festival souvenir program, 1977.
"Balanchine's First American Ballet." Playbill, May 1977.
"With the New York City Ballet in Berlin." The Dancing Times (London), Vol. LXIV, No. 760 (January 1974).
Entries in Encyclopedias
International Encyclopedia of Dance, ed. Selma Jeanne Cohen, 6 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Les Ballets 1933; Madame Celeste; Alfredo Edel; Lincoln Kirstein; Boris Kochno; Carmelita Maracci; Henri Matisse; Alessandro Sanquirico; Maria Tallchief
The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press; New York: the New-York Historical Society), 1995. George Balanchine; New York City Ballet
Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musik Theaters, 8 vols. (Piper: Munich and Zurich), 1986. The Seven Deadly Sins (Balanchine)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (London: Routledge, 2016) Web. Apollon Musagète/Apollo; George Balanchine
The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives
In 1994 I conceived and continue to direct The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives, a two-part video series consisting of the Archive of Lost Choreography, in which fragments of Balanchine choreography no longer performed and in danger of being lost are recreated; and the Interpreters Archive, in which dancers who originated major roles in Balanchine ballets (or significant later interpreters) teach and coach these roles with dancers of today, with the goal of preserving his original choreographic intent. Coaches include MARIA TALLCHIEF, DAME ALICIA MARKOVA, FREDERIC FRANKLIN, JACQUES d'AMBOISE, MELISSA HAYDEN, TODD BOLENDER, ALLEGRA KENT, CONRAD LUDLOW, PATRICIA WILDE, SUZANNE FARRELL, ARTHUR MITCHELL, HELGI TOMASSON, ALICIA ALONSO, PETER MARTINS, KAY MAZZO, EDWARD VILLELLA, PATRICIA McBRIDE, and others. Dancers include Angel Corella, Wendy Whelan, Paloma Herrera, Gillian Murphy, Peter Boal, Sara Mearns, Tai Jimenez, Julie Kent, Nikolaj Hübbe, Albert Evans, Sterling Hyltin, Robert Fairchild, Donald Williams, Tiler Peck, Daniel Ulbricht, and others. The videos are available for purchase by non-profit educational institutions and research repositories.
For information about this project, including a complete list of videos created under her direction, visit www.balanchine.org
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