Audiobooks by Toni Bentley

Serenade: A Balanchine Story

"Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance-and live-in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era. 'Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal memoir, rarefied elegance, history of the arts and pure human interest."-Misty Copeland, New York Times Book Review '[A] unique document about one of the greatest ballets ever created…. A beautiful read"-Mikhail Baryshnikov 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 refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer's own dramatic story of his immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia; its mystical-and literal-embodiment of the tradition of classical ballet in just thirty-three minutes. Bentley takes us inside the rarefied, intense, and thrilling world Balanchine created through his lifelong devotion to celebrating and expanding female beauty and strength-a world that, inevitably, passed upon his death. An intimate elegy to grace and loss and to the imprint of a towering artist and his transcendent creation on Bentley's own life, Serenade: A Balanchine Story is a rich narrative by a dynamic artist about the nature of art itself at its most ephemeral and glorious."

Toni Bentley (Author), Leslie Howard, Toni Bentley (Narrator)

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[Portuguese] - Os piores crimes da revista New Yorker: Oito grandes reportagens sobre crimes da melh

"Fundada pelos jornalistas Harold Ross e Jane Grant em 1925, a New Yorker é uma instituição norte-americana. Desde a sua fundação, a New Yorker se destacou pelo espaço que dava para os novos talentos literários, a sensibilidade fina com que analisava as notícias contemporâneas, e o rigoroso processo de checagem de dados, que até hoje é reconhecido como um dos melhores da imprensa mundial. John Hersey, Hannah Arendt, Dorothy Parker, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, John Cheever e Jonathan Safran Foer são alguns dos nomes da longa lista de autores consagrados que contribuíram com contos, ensaios críticos, ou reportagens. Um trabalho, porém, é crucial para entender a gênese do livro Os piores crimes da revista New Yorker. Em 1965, quando Truman Capote iniciou a série de artigos na revista que viriam a se tornar o livro 'A Sangue Frio', deu-se início a um novo gênero literário; o chamado 'crime real', que nas décadas seguintes se consolidaria como um dos mais populares gêneros literários da nossa era. O livro Os piores crimes da revista New Yorker é uma seleção dos melhores artigos publicados nas últimas décadas, tratando de crimes reais, suas consequências, e o que eles podem jogar de luz sobre nossos sistemas legais, nossa sociedade, e nossa humanidade."

Alec Wilkinson, Malcolm Gladwell, Mavis Gallant, Nicholas Schmidle, Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker Magazine, Toni Bentley (Author), Sidney Ferreira (Narrator)

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