Serenade: A Balanchine Story which yields an illuminating vision

which yields an illuminating vision of Vilnius and an exceptional window on Europe

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Serenade: A Balanchine Story which yields an illuminating visionBy Toni Bentley Pantheon Books Published in 2022 320 pages, 6. 125 x 9. 125 in Hardcover 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 of Serenade: its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly