"For a decade, from the time she was seventeen, Toni Bentley was a dancer with George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, dancing in central, prominent roles throughout that time. In her new book, Serenade: A Balanchine Story (Pantheon), she writes of that singular masterwork of his, what it was to dance and work with Balanchine in its staging, which included seventeen female dancers doing demanding, turn-on-a-dime precision work." (Promo Copy)