Nancy Reynolds is the director of research and founder of the

George Balanchine George Balanchine (; Various sources: * * * * born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze;, Romanization of Georgian, : April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers ...

Foundation and a 2013 recipient of a

Bessie award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance. Reynolds is a former dancer with the

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...

. She is the author of several books on dance including ''No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century'' (with Malcolm McCormick). Shelley C. Berg, writing in the Dance Research Journal, called the book an "invaluable contribution to the literature of dance history" and that the authors had succeeded in "capturing the vitality of performance".

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Nancy Reynolds collection
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Nancy Living people American ballerinas Bessie Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women