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An irresistible inside look at one of the world’s great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.

Toni Bentley danced with Balanchine’s New York City Ballet and is the author of six books—all named New York Times “Notable Books" of the year. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and her essay, “The Bad Lion,” (originally published in the New York Review of Books) was selected by Christopher Hitchens for Best American Essays 2010. The Surrender was the winner of the Charity Erotic Awards Writer of the Year.

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...