BALANCHINE: BOOK TALK
February 9, 2026
BOOK TALK & BOOK SIGNING WITH ELIZABETH KENDALL
Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost and Ballet Reborn, by Elizabeth Kendall (Oxford University Press, 2025)
6:00–6:45pm book talk, followed by a book signing
SF Ballet building
455 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
BOOK TALK: Join us for a special book talk and book signing event with Elizabeth Kendall, author of Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost & Ballet Reborn and Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer.
BOOK SIGNING: Elizabeth Kendall will sign books from 6:45–7:15pm immediately following her Book Talk. Please purchase your book in advance from wherever you prefer to buy your books. Books will not be available for purchase at the event.
6:00–6:45pm Book Talk, followed by a Book Signing
SF Ballet building
455 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
$25 general admission. Discounted price of $20 for SF Ballet donors Contributor Level and above.
There are no paper tickets issued for this event. Your name will be on a check-in list. Please check-in at the SF Ballet building lobby at 455 Franklin Street, across the street from the War Memorial Opera House. The Book Talk is from 6-6:45pm, followed the the Book Signing from 6:45-7:15pm.
The information, views, and opinions expressed at all audience engagement programs are strictly those of the participants and do not necessarily represent or imply any official position of the San Francisco Ballet Association.
About the Author
Elizabeth Kendall
Elizabeth Kendall is a dance and cultural historian and a memoirist. She is the author of the just-published (October 3rd, 2025) Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost & Ballet Reborn (Oxford U Press). Her previous books are: Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer (2013); Autobiography of a Wardrobe (2006); American Daughter: Discovering My Mother (2000); The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1990); and Where She Danced: The Birth of American Art Dance (1979). Forthcoming from Pantheon Books (2026-27) is Two-Part Inventions: Scenes from a Cross Race Friendship, co-written with Margo Jefferson. She has also published articles and essays in magazines, newspapers, and journals, and received various grants (Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, Fulbright, Cullman Center, Leon Levy Biography Center). She is an associate professor at Lang College of New School, and the New School for Social Research.
