Serenade A Balanchine Story

At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From backstage and onstage, she carries us through both the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade-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 emigration to the U.S. from Bolshevik Russia; its profound influence on the art form internationally. Bentley takes us inside the rarefied, intense and thrilling world Balanchine created through his lifelong devotion to celebrating and expanding female beauty and strength-a world that, inevitably, passed upon his death. An intimate elegy to grace and loss and the imprint of a towering artist and his transcendent creation on her life, Serenade: A Balanchine Story is a rich narrative by a woman artist about the nature of art itself at its most fleeting, dynamic, and glorious.

ISBN:	9780593316399
Publisher:	Pantheon Books
Imprint:	Pantheon Books
Published date:	07 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	792.82092
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20211020
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxv, 283
Weight:	628g
Height:	164mm
Width:	240mm
Spine width:	34mm

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