Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, with a new preface

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Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, with a new preface

Quite possibly the most revealing book about the world of ballet ever to see print.â€--National Review
â€œOne of the most intelligent and introspective glimpses ever offered into one of the most competitive and excruciatingly nervous existences in the arts.â€ ----New York Times Book Review
â€œWithout entirely stripping away the glamour of being a dancer, Bentleyâ€™s candid and modest account makes for a moving revelation about the price discipline and control exacts from young dancers in the name of art.â€--Chicago Tribune
â€œA mini-marvel, impossible to put down. . . . As a dancerâ€™s-eye portrait of the choreographer, a divinity to Ms. Bentley as well as, apparently, to everyone else in the NYCB and to uncounted other ballet lovers in the world beyond, the book is invaluable.â€--New York Review of Books

An irresistible inside look at one of the worldâ€™s great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.
Bentleyâ€™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 servedâ€”George Balanchine.
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Country	USA
Author	Toni Bentley
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780813040929
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University Press of Florida
Manufacturer	University Press of Florida
NumberOfPages	160
PublicationDate	2011-11-21
Publisher	University Press of Florida
ReleaseDate	2011-11-21
Studio	University Press of Florida

Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, with a new preface

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