HarperCollins published Bentley's book The Surrender (2004), a memoir of her experiences with heterosexual sodomy and a celebration of female sexual submission. At the time the book caused Bentley considerable notoriety given her perceived status as part of cultured society and the taboo nature of the subject matter.[16][17] The subject has since received considerable mainstream attention because of the worldwide profile gained by Fifty Shades of Grey. The book has been translated into eighteen languages. A one-woman play adaptation of The Surrender, La Rendición[18] directed by Spanish film 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 2012. Stoffel starred in the production. It was subsequently produced by the Spanish National Theatre (Centro Dramático Nacional)[19] in January 2013 at the Teatro María Guerrero in Madrid. The play had its English-language world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013, and had its American premiere at the Clurman Theatre in New York City in January 2014. It has also been performed in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Valencia, and in a German-language version, Die Hingabe in Kiel, Germany, and Bern, Switzerland.[citation needed]
Selected worksedit
Booksedit
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Random House, 1982)
Holding On to the Air (Simon & Schuster, 1990)
Costumes by Karinska (Harry N. Abrams, 1995)
Sisters of Salome (Yale University Press, 2002)
The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2004)
Serenade: A Balanchine Story (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Anthologiesedit
Remembering Lincoln (editor Nancy Reynolds, The Ballet Society, 2007)
Reading Dance (editor Robert Gottlieb, Pantheon Books, 2008)
Dirty Words, A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex (editor Ellen Sussman, Bloomsbury, 2008)
Best American Essays 2010 (editor Christopher Hitchens, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
New York Diaries 1609–2009 (editor Teresa Carpenter, Modern Library, 2012)
Reviewsedit
Upstairs, Downstairs: 'Vagina: A New Biography', by Naomi Wolf
Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story: 'A Book of Secrets' by Michael Holroyd
Taking Flight: 'Apollo's Angels, A History of Ballet' by Jennifer Homans
Meet, Pay, Love: 'Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys' edited by David Henry Sterry and R. J. Martin Jr
Appraising Grace: 'Ballet's Magic Kingdom' by Akim Volynsky. Edited and translated by Stanley J. Rabinowitz
A 'Hyena in Petticoats': 'Vindication, A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft' by Lyndall Gordon
Two-Step: ‘The Astaires' by Kathleen Riley
Faithless Love: 'Jealousy' by Catherine Millet Translated by Helen Stevenson
Casanova, The Man Who Loved Women: 'Casanova' by Ian Kelly
The Brando of Ballet: 'Nureyev' by Julie Kavanagh
Life, and My Evil Ex-Boyfriend: 'Learning to Drive' by Katha Pollitt
Nip and Tuck: 'Beauty Junkies' by Alex Kuczynski
The Master: 'George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker' by Robert Gottlieb, 'All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine' by Terry Teachout
'Margot Fonteyn': Leaping Beauty by Meredith Daneman
The Rage of Joe: Lars von Trier’s 'Nymphomaniac' and the Female Scream by Lars von Trier
'Zumanity' heralds a burlesque revival
A Picture of Passion: 'The Company' by Robert Altman
Shutters and Shudders: 'Lee Miller, A Life' by Carolyn Burke
The Girl Can't Help It: 'The Female Thing' by Laura Kipnis
Bound for Glory: 'Writer of O' by Pola Rapaport
Sex and the 'Girls' Woman: Lena Dunham
Butchery at the Ballet: 'Black Swan'
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Essaysedit
The Ghost Hovering Over ‘Giselle’
Related, by Devotion, to Balanchine
Dancers: The Agony And The Ecstasy
Reaching For Perfection – The Life And Death of a Dancer
^Bentley, Toni (23 January 2009). "Book Review – Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925, by Akim Volynsky". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^"Up Front: Toni Bentley". The New York Times. 22 January 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^"Platform: Sex and the Girls Woman - Culture - Vogue". www.vogue.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^"Shutters and Shudders". The New Republic. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^"Bookforum – Summer 2006". Bookforum.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^"The girl can't help it". Bookforum.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.