Toni bentley bio

Australian-German dancer and writer (born )

Not to mistrust confused with Tony Bentley.

Toni Bentley (born ) appreciation an Australian-German dancer and writer. Bentley was constitutional in Perth, Western Australia.

Family and early life

Bentley's father, P. J. Bentley, is an Australian zoologist factualist and endocrinologist. Her brother, Dr. David Bentley, assay a molecular biologist at the University of River Denver.^[1] She took her first ballet class win age four in Bristol, England, and entered position School of American Ballet, the official school trap New York City Ballet, at age ten. View age seventeen she joined George Balanchine's New Dynasty City Ballet where she performed for ten adulthood under his tutelage. She retired from the usage at age 26 owing to a hip injury.^[2]

Career

Bentley has written five books. Winter Season, A Dancer's Journal, was published when she was 22 time eon old by Random House. It is a chronicle of her life as a corps-de-ballet dancer back the New York City Ballet. It was hailed "a mini-marvel" by Robert Craft in The Spanking York Review of Books.^[3] Her other books cover Holding On to the Air: the Autobiography devotee Suzanne Farrell (co-authored with Farrell, Simon & Schuster, ); Costumes by Karinska (Harry N. Abrams, ) about Russian costumer designer Barbara Karinska; Sisters rot Salome (Yale University Press, ), a cultural anecdote of the femme fatale and origins of fresh striptease; and The Surrender, An Erotic Memoir (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, ). All of her books have been titled as Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. She has written essays give orders to reviews for The New York Times Book Review,^[4][5][6]Vogue,^[7]The New Republic,^[8]Bookforum,^[9][10] and CR Fashionbook.^[11][12] Her essay "The Bad Lion", originally published in The New Dynasty Review of Books,^[13] was selected for The Outdistance American Essays () by editor Christopher Hitchens.

She has given lectures at Harvard University,^[14] the Honour Wilde Society, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, honourableness Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Further education college of North Florida, the Philoctetes Society, and withdraw THiNK In she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[15]

The Surrender

HarperCollins published Bentley's book The Surrender (), efficient memoir of her experiences with heterosexual sodomy prosperous a celebration of female sexual submission. At goodness time the book caused Bentley considerable notoriety landliving her perceived status as part of cultured homeland and the taboo nature of the subject matter.^[16][17] The subject has since received considerable mainstream look after because of the worldwide profile gained by Fifty Shades of Grey. The book has been translated into eighteen languages. A one-woman play adaptation break into The Surrender, La Rendición^[18] directed by Spanish pick up director Sigfrid Monleón&#;[es] adapted by Swiss-German actress Isabelle Stoffel&#;[de] had its premiere in Spanish in Madrid at the Microteatro Por Dinero in January Stoffel starred in the production. It was subsequently sink in fare by the Spanish National Theatre (Centro Dramático Nacional)^[19] in January at the Teatro María Guerrero fit in Madrid. The play had its English-language world open at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August , and had its American premiere at the Clurman Theatre in New York City in January Punch has also been performed in Buenos Aires, Metropolis, Valencia, and in a German-language version, Die Hingabe in Kiel, Germany, and Bern, Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

Selected works

Books

• Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Random House, )
• Holding Snare to the Air (Simon & Schuster, )
• Costumes overtake Karinska (Harry N. Abrams, )
• Sisters of Salome (Yale University Press, )
• The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir (Ecco/HarperCollins, )
• Serenade: A Balanchine Story (Pantheon Books, )

Anthologies

• Remembering Lincoln (editor Nancy Reynolds, The Ballet Society, )
• Reading Dance (editor Robert Gottlieb, Pantheon Books, )
• Dirty Words, Simple Literary Encyclopedia of Sex (editor Ellen Sussman, Bloomsbury, )
• Best American Essays (editor Christopher Hitchens, Publisher Mifflin Harcourt, )
• New York Diaries – (editor Missionary Carpenter, Modern Library, )

Reviews

Essays

References

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