Studio 5 at New York City Center: analyzing the jazz effect of Buddy Bradley on George Balanchine. Ms. Footer will be in discussion with Adrian Danchig-Waring; tap dancers and dancers from New York City Ballet will demonstrate choreography.
Private Club, New York City: Talk on Feel the Floor, book signing, and dinner.
The George Balanchine Foundation, hosted by the New York Public Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center: “The Other “Mr. B.”: How Buddy Bradley’s Dance Genius Transformed Ballet Movement, with Maureen Footer in conversation with a panel of dancers and dance critics.
Induction of Buddy Bradley into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame at the 2026 Tap Dance Awards, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
The Caldera Club, Jackson Hole: Cocktails and book signing, Feel the Floor.
Annabel’s, London: Book talk and signing, Feel the Floor.
British Film Institute, London: Book talk and signing of Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley.
British Film Institute, London: Introductory remarks and screening of It’s Love Again, with choreography by Buddy Bradley.
Royal Ballet School, London: Discussion of collaboration and artistic exchanges between Frederick Ashton and Buddy Bradley.
Noel Coward Archive Trust hosts Maureen Footer in conversation with cultural historian Justine Picardie about Buddy Bradley, Noel Coward, Molyneux, and London in the 1930s; followed by a book signing of Feel the Floor at the Club for Acts and Actors, London.
McNally Jackson Books, New York City: Panel discussion on Feel the Floor and book signing. Ms. Footer will be joined by panelist Jenai Cutcher, tap dance performer, writer, and archivist, and Ben West, musical theater critic. Moderator will be Miranda Stuck, dance journalist and performer.
Private venue, New York City: Feel the Floor comments, signing, party, and dinner.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: speaking on the collaboration of Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton, at the Frederick Ashton symposium.
92nd Street Y, New York City: Feel the Floor discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson. Tickets: https://www.92ny.org/event/maureen-footer-with-margo-jefferson
Private club, New York City: Feel the Floor discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Levering Lewis.
Private club, New York City: Book lunch, talk, and signing of Feel the Floor.
Publication of Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley (Beacon Press).
Columbia University Studies in Dance Seminar
Presentation on Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley.
Fashion Institute of Technology, Discussion with Patricia Mears, Deputy Director of the Museum at FIT on Dior and His Decorators and the role of fashion in interior design, approximately 6 p.m.
Mississippi Museum of Art, lecture on Dior and His Decorators.
Dallas Museum of Art, Book lecture and signing in conjunction with the exhibit Christian Dior and the World.
Fundraiser for Children’s Chain of Los Angeles, an auxiliary of the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, at the Christian Dior Boutique, Beverly Hills.
Lecture and luncheon at the New York Junior League.
Cercle d’Amis, French Institute/Alliance Francaise of New York, book presentation and lunch.
Benefit lunch and book presentation for the French Heritage Society, Atlanta, at the Cherokee Town Club.
Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, time TBD.
French Heritage Society, Boston, benefit book talk and dinner at the Chilton Club.
The Grand Tour, Palm Beach, book talk with Annette Tapert, cocktails and book signing.
Denver Art Museum; Lecture, in conjunction with the exhibit, Christian Dior and the World.
Parsons School of Design, Paris, 6:30 p.m. book talk.
Sotheby’s Paris, 7 p.m., panel discussion with Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Marie-France Pochna, biographer of Christian Dior.
Albertine Bookstore, The French Consulate, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York; A conversation on Dior and architecture with Marie-France Pochna, biographer of Christian Dior, followed by book signing and reception.
Private club, New York City; Discussion of Dior and His Decorators, with Maureen Footer and Harold Koda, fashion scholar and former curator-in-chief of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sotheby’s New York.
New York book launch, panel discussion, and signing, in conjunction with L’Art de Vivre: Property from the Collection of Kathleen and Martin Field (Sale date: October 20). Sponsored by Sotheby’s and Christian Dior. By invitation.
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA.
Lecture, signing, and reception.
Christian Dior Boutique, Bond Street, London.
London book launch, signing, and reception. By invitation.