Toni Bentley
Toni Bentley danced with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet for ten years. She is the author of Notable Books. She has written articles for numerous publications including the (by Suzanne Farrell with Toni Bentley), , all of which were [... more]
Harper Collins |
Biography - Farrell, Suzanne (1945-): An article from: ...
 Author: --Sketch by Elizabeth Wenning Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 7 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
$9.95
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The Lives of the Muses
In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional [... more]
$10.95
eBooks |
Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. This memoir, first published in 1990 and reissued with a new preface by the author, recounts Farrell's [... more]
$30.95
A1 Books |
Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Thorough, gossipy, undefinitive -- maybe unnecessary: Despite, or because of, its inclusion of hundreds of interviews, much of Greg Lawrence's biography amounts to uncorroborated hearsay. Given the backbiting and jealous atmosphere of the theatre world, [... more]
$17.00
Amazon.com |
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Fiction with real names?: I did not like this book because the stories were, in fact fiction, but used the real names of dancers. I think this is unfair to the dancers, in that people may remeber the fiction and not the truth. I did not want to read the [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, with a new preface
Why isn't this still in print?: Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal is the exquisite chronicle of a ballet dancer's experiences with the New York City Ballet. The dancer, Toni Bentley, claims a certain naivetee, but I don't believe it's innocent ignorance [... more]
$21.95
Amazon.com |
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They ...
Amazon.com Review: In The Lives of the Muses, Francine Prose writes a spirited and enlightening exposé of nine women who fired the imaginations of some of the most inimitable artists and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With wicked wit, [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
Lives of the Muses, The
Amazon.com Review: In The Lives of the Muses, Francine Prose writes a spirited and enlightening exposé of nine women who fired the imaginations of some of the most inimitable artists and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With wicked wit, [... more]
$10.95
Amazon.com |
The Lives of the Muses : Nine Women & the Artists They ...
Amazon.com Review: In The Lives of the Muses, Francine Prose writes a spirited and enlightening exposé of nine women who fired the imaginations of some of the most inimitable artists and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With wicked wit, [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
George Balanchine : The Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
Brief, but well-written and informative biography: How does one possibly compress the life of Balanchine into a small, thin mini-biography? For if anyone had a "packed life" it was George Balanchine: careers at the Mariinsky, Ballet Russes, and [... more]
$19.95
Amazon.com |
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
What do we do now? We dance!: How should your average adult shopper determine the difference between a graphic novel that is good and a graphic novel that is bad? It's simple. If a graphic novel is bad then it will be poorly illustrated, shamefully [... more]
$9.99
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