Artists' Salon: Janice Ross, "Embedded in San Francisco Ballet"

Janice Ross is Stanford Dance Division director and Associate Professor in the Drama Department. Professor Ross will discuss her most recent book, San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five (Chronicle Books 2007), a journalistic portrait of a season embedded in America's oldest ballet company. Previous books include Moving Lessons: The Beginning of Dance in American Education (University of Wisconsin Press 2000), Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (University of California Press 2007), and San Francisco Ballet: An American Voice in Ballet (Chronicle Books 2007). Her current research interests include contemporary performance as activism and dance in prisons. For ten years she was the staff dance critic for The Oakland Tribune and for twenty years a contributing editor to Dance Magazine. Her articles on dance have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She is past president of the Dance Critics Association, and the CORD board of directors and current President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.