: 
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593316398 | 413 pages | True EPUB | 54.29 MB
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story ofSerenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era. This breathtaking book is a "unique document about one of the greatest ballets ever created.. A beautiful read" (Mikhail Baryshnikov).
At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From both backstage and onstage, she carries us through the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands ofSerenade:its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double-diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer's own dramatic story of his immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia; its mystical—and...
Links are Interchangeable - No Password - Single Extraction