An irresistible inside look at one of the world'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. 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 ...
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An irresistible inside look at one of the world'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. 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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Good/Good hard cover. 12mo, boards, 150pp. scrapes, chips, tears, rubbing, scratches, dust jacket. spine twisted at top, shelfwear, bump with two small tears top front, cover. foxing & soiling topedges with red marker line, clean, tight, text. dance.
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The only negative to this book is that it's so short! Toni Bentley writes about her life as a professional dancer under Balanchine during the winter season in the early 80s. Her writing is elegant & lyrical. She is also candid about her doubts about continuing her career, as well as the joys of performing, & the rigors of rehearsals. I look forward to reading some of her other books.
