"The Ballet That Changed Everything" by Toni Bentley
"This is the first diagonal in "Serenade," a ballet brimming with that merging line: This is female terrain."
"But "Serenade" does not stop there, flooded as it is in beauty, tulle and evanescent moonlight. No, there is an edge, a razor-sharp subversion where the boy-girl affair goes right off the rails and something more profound beckons."
"Balanchine stripped his heroine—she will always be that—of her specificity, her wings and feathers and weighty crown, and of her impetuous dependence. And he sends this creature he finds, this real woman, to her destiny, to Eternity, alone, unadorned but for the echo in her loosened hair of Giselle gone mad. Underneath the elaborate camouflage he has uncovered an artist."
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