Toni Bentley

Toni Bentley danced with the New York City Ballet for ten years and is the author of five books, including Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, Sisters of Salome, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir. She is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently working on a book about Balanchine’s ballet Serenade. (November 2009)

  • A Ballerina, Inside Out

    April 23, 2010

    Doctor, I want my hip bone.”

    Doctor Padgett did a double take.

    I want my bone, you know, what you’ll be taking out.”