Copyright © 2022 by Toni Bentley

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Writing by Lincoln Kirstein is © 2022 by the New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) and may not be reproduced without written permission.

All Serenade choreography pictured in this volume is by George Balanchine, © The George Balanchine Trust.

For drawings, images, and words of George Balanchine: BALANCHINE is a Trademark of The George Balanchine Trust.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Bentley, Toni, author.

Title: Serenade : a Balanchine story / Toni Bentley.

Description: First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2022. Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021041885 (print) | LCCN 2021041886 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780593316399 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593316405 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Serenade (Choreographic work : Balanchine). Bentley, Toni.

Ballerinas—Bolshevik—Russia—Biography. Ballerinas—New York (State)—

New York—Biography. Balanchine, George. Choreographers—New York

(State)—New York—Biography. New York City Ballet.

Classification: LCC GV1790.S47 B46 2022 (print) | LCC GV1790.S47 (ebook) |

DDC 792.8/2092 [B]—dc23/eng/20211020

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021041885

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021041886

Ebook ISBN 9780593316405

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Frontispiece: George Balanchine 1938, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Photograph of George Balanchine on this page © Paul Kolnik

Cover illustration by Erik Werner © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VISDA

Cover design by Emily Mahon

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