Join us for online conversations with American guest speakers in a new edition of Shop Talks moderated by filmmaker Michael Beckelhimer —a biweekly series of virtual meetings with American cultural performers and experts.

The guest speaker of the Shop Talk on June 9 at 5:00 PM MSK is dance and culture critic/historian Elizabeth Kendall.

Elizabeth Kendall is a dance and culture critic/historian and a Literary Studies professor at Lang College and NSSR, both of New School.  Her book Balanchine and the Lost Muse:  Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer, was published in July, 2013, by Oxford U. Press. She has also written Where She Danced, (Knopf & U. of California Press); The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the l930’s (Knopf & Cooper Square Press), two memoirs, American Daughter (Random House), Autobiography of a Wardrobe (Pantheon and Anchor/Doubleday), and numerous articles about dance, fashion and other arts.  She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, Fond Likhacheva in Russia, and Leon Levy Center for Biography.  Presently she’s at work on a narrative recreation of choreographer George Balanchine’s early years in the U.S. (1933-1946), provisionally titled Balanchine Finds his America: a Tale of Sex, Art and Solitude.   

Michael Beckelhimer is a freelance writer/producer and documentary filmmaker. He is the director and producer of the documentary film, “Pushkin is Our Everything”. He got his B.A. in Russian at American University, and an M.A. in Russian at Harvard. He lived in Moscow and Tallinn before, during, and after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Tune in to watch this livestreamed talk on the American Center in Moscow’s YouTube channel and VK page on June 9, 2022, at 5:00 PM Moscow time.

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