Author: Nilu N. Gavankar
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434904393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Please Dance With Me
Author: Nilu N. Gavankar
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434904393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434904393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Dance with Me, Please
Author: Lauren Frances Defilippo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449006078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This story is told to inspire those who ever felt discouraged. I challenge everyone to take the extra steps to solve the puzzles, uncover endless mysteries and release the desire to fulfill any wishes, no matter the difficulty. Remember, if everything is done for us and done quickly, we will be left with nothing to learn. My learning opportunities continue to bring me tremendous happiness. If your goal ever seems impossible, remember to take a break and dance.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449006078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This story is told to inspire those who ever felt discouraged. I challenge everyone to take the extra steps to solve the puzzles, uncover endless mysteries and release the desire to fulfill any wishes, no matter the difficulty. Remember, if everything is done for us and done quickly, we will be left with nothing to learn. My learning opportunities continue to bring me tremendous happiness. If your goal ever seems impossible, remember to take a break and dance.
Dance with Me
Author: Julia A. Ericksen
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814722660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times" Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and the mood is hot and heavy; the women bend and hyperextend their legs as they twist and turn around their partners. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display of intimacy, romance and sexual passion. In Dance With Me, Julia Ericksen, a competitive ballroom dancer herself, takes the reader onto the competition floor and into the lights and the glamour of a world of tanned bodies and glittering attire, exploring the allure of this hyper-competitive, difficult, and often expensive activity. In a vivid ethnography accompanied by beautiful photographs of all levels of dancers, from the world’s top competitors to social dancers, Ericksen examines the ways emotional labor is used to create intimacy between professional partners and between professionals and their students, illustrating how dancers purchase intimacy. She shows that, while at first glance, ballroom presents a highly gendered face with men leading and women following, dancing also transgresses gender.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814722660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times" Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and the mood is hot and heavy; the women bend and hyperextend their legs as they twist and turn around their partners. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display of intimacy, romance and sexual passion. In Dance With Me, Julia Ericksen, a competitive ballroom dancer herself, takes the reader onto the competition floor and into the lights and the glamour of a world of tanned bodies and glittering attire, exploring the allure of this hyper-competitive, difficult, and often expensive activity. In a vivid ethnography accompanied by beautiful photographs of all levels of dancers, from the world’s top competitors to social dancers, Ericksen examines the ways emotional labor is used to create intimacy between professional partners and between professionals and their students, illustrating how dancers purchase intimacy. She shows that, while at first glance, ballroom presents a highly gendered face with men leading and women following, dancing also transgresses gender.
Dance with Me
Author: Luanne Rice
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553898701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Acclaimed for her insightful depiction of the magic and mystery in everyday life and relationships, Luanne Rice is one of today’s most gifted novelists. Now the author of eight consecutive New York Times bestsellers delivers her most powerful book yet—the story of a man and woman forced to choose between the past that haunts them and the love that won’t let them go. Jane Porter left the apple orchards of rural Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, years ago, fleeing memories that could tear two families apart. Now she has been unexpectedly drawn home to her mother and only sister. Dylan Chadwick has come back, too, shedding the steely exterior he wore as a federal agent in order to follow in the footsteps of his apple-farming father and forget the life he once lived. Amid this landscape of loss and renewal, a haunting story of converging lives, small-town secrets—and the magical sway of unexpected miracles—unfolds. Deeply moving and richly told, Dance with Me explores emotional connections at their very core, with keen insights into the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers that will resonate long after the final page is turned.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553898701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Acclaimed for her insightful depiction of the magic and mystery in everyday life and relationships, Luanne Rice is one of today’s most gifted novelists. Now the author of eight consecutive New York Times bestsellers delivers her most powerful book yet—the story of a man and woman forced to choose between the past that haunts them and the love that won’t let them go. Jane Porter left the apple orchards of rural Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, years ago, fleeing memories that could tear two families apart. Now she has been unexpectedly drawn home to her mother and only sister. Dylan Chadwick has come back, too, shedding the steely exterior he wore as a federal agent in order to follow in the footsteps of his apple-farming father and forget the life he once lived. Amid this landscape of loss and renewal, a haunting story of converging lives, small-town secrets—and the magical sway of unexpected miracles—unfolds. Deeply moving and richly told, Dance with Me explores emotional connections at their very core, with keen insights into the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers that will resonate long after the final page is turned.
In the Spirit of Dance
Author: Chidi A. Okoye
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149075640X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A dance is a communication between the dancer and the universe or God. As we each embrace the dancer in us, we can better understand and celebrate Chidi Okoyes work in its fullness. His unmatched sensitivity to the subtle energies of the female body and the dancing body is apparent through all his work, and my hope is that we can all truly appreciate the gift that he is to this world
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149075640X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A dance is a communication between the dancer and the universe or God. As we each embrace the dancer in us, we can better understand and celebrate Chidi Okoyes work in its fullness. His unmatched sensitivity to the subtle energies of the female body and the dancing body is apparent through all his work, and my hope is that we can all truly appreciate the gift that he is to this world
Dancing with the Pole
Author: Bugs B
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496934504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Being a dancer/stripper is no easy walk in the park. The people you meet are sometimes the ones you try to avoid in everyday life. But it also can be fun and exciting, depending on who you meet. This book is my diary of my experiences working at a bikini bar in California. I share my conversations with customers as well as with other girls in the dressing room. I give light to our world because no one really knows what we go through as dancers, mothers, daughters, friends, and even sugar babies. From arguing with each other about what was said behind someone's back, to being jealous about a certain customer. This book shares all the juicy details you would want to hear from a dancer/stripper.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496934504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Being a dancer/stripper is no easy walk in the park. The people you meet are sometimes the ones you try to avoid in everyday life. But it also can be fun and exciting, depending on who you meet. This book is my diary of my experiences working at a bikini bar in California. I share my conversations with customers as well as with other girls in the dressing room. I give light to our world because no one really knows what we go through as dancers, mothers, daughters, friends, and even sugar babies. From arguing with each other about what was said behind someone's back, to being jealous about a certain customer. This book shares all the juicy details you would want to hear from a dancer/stripper.
The Private Lives of Teachers
Author: Joseph Wellman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595427251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This is the story about a small group of people who are in front of us fourteen to eighteen years of our lives. This is a story about teachers. We think we know them, but mostly all we know is an image. Set in a suburban high school, the story focuses upon the lives of teachers beyond the classroom as the reader follows them into their lounge, their relationships, their pasts and their secrets. The Private Lives of Teachers is the story of fourteen Payson High School social studies teachers, an eclectic group with unique and troubling backgrounds, struggling with the basic needs, demands, and issues of life. Follow them for one full year and discover their world beyond the classroom.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595427251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This is the story about a small group of people who are in front of us fourteen to eighteen years of our lives. This is a story about teachers. We think we know them, but mostly all we know is an image. Set in a suburban high school, the story focuses upon the lives of teachers beyond the classroom as the reader follows them into their lounge, their relationships, their pasts and their secrets. The Private Lives of Teachers is the story of fourteen Payson High School social studies teachers, an eclectic group with unique and troubling backgrounds, struggling with the basic needs, demands, and issues of life. Follow them for one full year and discover their world beyond the classroom.
Octavia's Brood
Author: Walidah Imarisha
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas. PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA'S BROOD: "Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is possible. Our job begins with speculative fictions that fire society's imagination and its desire for change. In adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha's visionary conception, and by its activist-artists' often stunning acts of creative inception, Octavia's Brood makes for great thinking and damn good reading. The rest will be up to us." —Jeff Chang, author of Who We Be: The Colorization of America “Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, ‘It’s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.’ Our radical imaginations are under siege and this text is the rescue mission. It is the new cornerstone of every class I teach on inequality, justice, and social change....This is the text we’ve been waiting for.” —Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier "Octavia once told me that two things worried her about the future of humanity: The tendency to think hierarchically, and the tendency to place ourselves higher on the hierarchy than others. I think she would be humbled beyond words that the fine, thoughtful writers in this volume have honored her with their hearts and minds. And that in calling for us to consider that hierarchical structure, they are not walking in her shadow, nor standing on her shoulders, but marching at her side." —Steven Barnes, author of Lion’s Blood “Never has one book so thoroughly realized the dream of its namesake. Octavia's Brood is the progeny of two lovers of Octavia Butler and their belief in her dream that science fiction is for everybody.... Butler could not wish for better evidence of her touch changing our literary and living landscapes. Play with these children, read these works, and find the children in you waiting to take root under the stars!” —Moya Bailey and Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy “Like [Octavia] Butler's fiction, this collection is cartography, a map to freedom.” —dream hampton, filmmaker and Visiting Artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator, and spoken word artist. She is the author of the poetry collectionScars/Stars and facilitates writing workshops at schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women's prisons. adrienne maree brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit, Michigan. She received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butler–based writing workshops.
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas. PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA'S BROOD: "Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is possible. Our job begins with speculative fictions that fire society's imagination and its desire for change. In adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha's visionary conception, and by its activist-artists' often stunning acts of creative inception, Octavia's Brood makes for great thinking and damn good reading. The rest will be up to us." —Jeff Chang, author of Who We Be: The Colorization of America “Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, ‘It’s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.’ Our radical imaginations are under siege and this text is the rescue mission. It is the new cornerstone of every class I teach on inequality, justice, and social change....This is the text we’ve been waiting for.” —Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier "Octavia once told me that two things worried her about the future of humanity: The tendency to think hierarchically, and the tendency to place ourselves higher on the hierarchy than others. I think she would be humbled beyond words that the fine, thoughtful writers in this volume have honored her with their hearts and minds. And that in calling for us to consider that hierarchical structure, they are not walking in her shadow, nor standing on her shoulders, but marching at her side." —Steven Barnes, author of Lion’s Blood “Never has one book so thoroughly realized the dream of its namesake. Octavia's Brood is the progeny of two lovers of Octavia Butler and their belief in her dream that science fiction is for everybody.... Butler could not wish for better evidence of her touch changing our literary and living landscapes. Play with these children, read these works, and find the children in you waiting to take root under the stars!” —Moya Bailey and Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy “Like [Octavia] Butler's fiction, this collection is cartography, a map to freedom.” —dream hampton, filmmaker and Visiting Artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator, and spoken word artist. She is the author of the poetry collectionScars/Stars and facilitates writing workshops at schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women's prisons. adrienne maree brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit, Michigan. She received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butler–based writing workshops.
Austin's Guide to Girls
Author: Kelli Dougal
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312217146
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Not sure how to make the girl of your dreams look your way? Even less sure about what to do if she DOES? Kelli Dougal, up-and-coming blogger and self-proclaimed dating guru, gives you the tips you need to survive in today's fast-paced dating world. What started out as a gift for her brother has quickly become the go-to guide for any guy who wants to stand out as a classy date. Learn how to win over the heart of any girl with flirting tips, relationship advice, date ideas, and even tips on how to ensure that your first kiss is absolutely MAGICAL. Each chapter is broken down into easy-to-follow steps, including practical examples and even sample conversations. Also included in this second edition are hundreds of dating ideas and helpful hints for winning over the girl you've had your eye on. Now you no longer have an excuse to sit at home on a Friday night. Start dating!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312217146
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Not sure how to make the girl of your dreams look your way? Even less sure about what to do if she DOES? Kelli Dougal, up-and-coming blogger and self-proclaimed dating guru, gives you the tips you need to survive in today's fast-paced dating world. What started out as a gift for her brother has quickly become the go-to guide for any guy who wants to stand out as a classy date. Learn how to win over the heart of any girl with flirting tips, relationship advice, date ideas, and even tips on how to ensure that your first kiss is absolutely MAGICAL. Each chapter is broken down into easy-to-follow steps, including practical examples and even sample conversations. Also included in this second edition are hundreds of dating ideas and helpful hints for winning over the girl you've had your eye on. Now you no longer have an excuse to sit at home on a Friday night. Start dating!
Family Dancing
Author: David Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620407043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A collection of stories presents families all unhappy in different ways, including a mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, yet has trouble accepting her son's lover.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620407043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A collection of stories presents families all unhappy in different ways, including a mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, yet has trouble accepting her son's lover.