She also serves as editor of the newsletter for the Dance Critics Association, as a member of the editorial board for The Washington Independent Review of Books (www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com ), and as a consultant to The George Balanchine Foundation. Her essays, reviews, and features have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other periodicals in the U.S. and Europe; her most recently published books are Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation (which she authored) and Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World by Agnes de Mille (which she edited). She is a past fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson Foundations and a past recipient of a Whiting Writers Award.