Marion Kant

Marion Kant earned her Ph.D. in 1986 at Humboldt University in Berlin. She has taught in Germany and Great Britain and has been employed at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. where she taught courses in dance and theatre history, performance criticism and cultural theory. She is currently Director of Studies in German at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Her latest publications include:Giselle, commissioned by the State Opera Berlin (Inselverlag: Frankfurt/Main 2001); Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich (Berghahn Books: New York/Oxford, 2003); The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge University Press 2007). Her main research and subsequent publications focus on the problems of exile, dance and music history in the 19th and 20th centuries and dance aesthetics.