Barefoot Dancer

Barefoot Dancer PDF Author: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780876148075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Describes the life of the modern dancer who created a spontaneous, free-form dance style accompanied by literary readings and non-dance music.

Barefoot Dancer

Barefoot Dancer PDF Author: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780876148075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
Describes the life of the modern dancer who created a spontaneous, free-form dance style accompanied by literary readings and non-dance music.

The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories

The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories PDF Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1841482293
Category : Ballets
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Book Description
Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.

Lola's Fandango

Lola's Fandango PDF Author: Anna Witte
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 178285505X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Little Lola is tired of living in her big sisters shadow. But when she starts taking secret flamenco lessons from her Papi, will she find the courage to share her new skill with the world?

Body of a Dancer

Body of a Dancer PDF Author: Renee D'Aoust
Publisher: Etruscan Press
ISBN: 0983934614
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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"A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."—Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's Kisses The award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York during the nineties. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Trained at the prestigious Martha Graham Center, D'Aoust intertwines accounts of her own and other dancers' lives with essays on modern dance history. A dancer's body, scarred, strained, and tough, bears witness to the discipline demanded by the art form. Body of a Dancer provides a powerful, acidly comic record of what it is to love, and eventually leave, a life centered on dance. "With exquisite description, absolute honesty, and a clear compelling voice, Body of a Dancer offers an unforgettable account of one artist’s bittersweet journey."—Dinty W. Moore Renée E. D'Aoust's essays have been featured as notable essays in Best American Essays in 2006, 2007, and 2009. Her nonfiction work has been included in the anthology Reading Dance, edited by Robert Gottlieb and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. D'Aoust is the recipient of an NEA Dance Criticism fellowship and grants from The Puffin Foundation and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Barefoot to Balanchine

Barefoot to Balanchine PDF Author: Mary Kerner
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385264365
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Provides an overview of dance history, and describes dance companies, dance steps and dance training, stage performance, choreography, and more

Designed for Dancing

Designed for Dancing PDF Author: Janet Borgerson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044331
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed at the club; with glorious, full-color record cover art. In midcentury America, eager dancers mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, Watusied at the nightclub, and polkaed in the pavilion, instructed (and inspired) by dance records. Glorious, full-color record covers encouraged them: Let’s Cha Cha Cha, Dance and Stay Young, Dancing in the Street!, Limbo Party, High Society Twist. In Designed for Dancing, vinyl record aficionados and collectors Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder examine dance records of the 1950s and 1960s as expressions of midcentury culture, identity, fantasy, and desire. Borgerson and Schroeder begin with the record covers—memorable and striking, but largely designed and created by now-forgotten photographers, scenographers, and illustrators—which were central to the way records were conceived, produced, and promoted. Dancing allowed people to sample aspirational lifestyles, whether at the Plaza or in a smoky Parisian café, and to affirm ancestral identities with Irish, Polish, or Greek folk dancing. Dance records featuring ethnic music of variable authenticity and appropriateness invited consumers to dance in the footsteps of the Other with “hot” Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and Hawaiian hulas. Bought at a local supermarket, department store, or record shop, and listened to in the privacy of home, midcentury dance records offered instruction in how to dance, how to dress, how to date, and how to discover cool new music—lessons for harmonizing with the rest of postwar America.

Piano and Radio Magazine

Piano and Radio Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance PDF Author: Lynn Garafola
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Book Description
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci PDF Author: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780876144671
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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A biography of the notable Italian Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor.

The Sketch

The Sketch PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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