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Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal  
Author: Toni Bentley
ISBN: 0813027055
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

Seattle Times, Nov 16, 2003
"Deservedly praised by critics and George Ballanchine for its freshness, candor, and eloquence...it's still an enlightening read."




Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal

ANNOTATION

Both an inside look at the corps de ballet of NYC and at the development of a woman dedicated to her art.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Bentley's association with the New York City Ballet began when she was accepted by the affiliated School of American Ballet at the age of eleven. Seven years later, she became a member of the company. In the fall of 1980, as the winter season opened, she found herself facing an emotional crisis: her dancing was not going well. At 22 she felt that her life had lost direction. To try to make something of her experience, on paper if not on stage, she began to keep a journal, describing her day-to-day activities and looking back on her past. The result is perhaps the closest that most of us will ever come to knowing what it feels like to be a dancer, on stage and off. It also offers memorable glimpses of some notable members of the City ballet, with, at the center, the man whose vision they all served - George Balanchine.

     



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