Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like “in the days of the monarchy” and how they’ve changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance. Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague’s pubs and football stadiums, developed a unique method which he termed “palavering,” whereby characters gab and soliloquize with abandon. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why he has earned the admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich.
Author: Helen Oxenbury
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1406341487
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The reissue of a classic first storybook to celebrate Helen Oxenbury's work. A little girl is taken to her first dance class. Her mum buys her some ballet shoes and a pair of baggy tights, and ties her hair into a bun. The girl bounces about with all the other girls and boys and just as things get exciting, her laces come undone and everyone falls down. A warm and funny depiction of a girl’s first experience of a dance class and her delight in galloping about with her classmates. Helen Oxenbury’s First Storybooks perfectly describe the small but memorable events of childhood. The words are a delight and are perfect for reading aloud, while the pictures offer warm, affectionate visions of a child’s world, which parents and children will instantly recognize and love.
Author: Harriet Ziefert
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402734274
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Polly Go Lightly practices her ballet positions and dreams of dancing on the big stage.
Author: Angela McAllister
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444008773
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Sophie loves to dance. She dreams of being a ballerina, and when she receives ballet lessons for her birthday, she hopes her wish to be a real dancer one day might really come true.
Author: Andrea Posner-Sanchez
Publisher: Golden/Disney
ISBN: 0736426671
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Ariel wishes she could dance like the people she sees on land, but she realizes there are ways she can dance underwater, and soon she is teaching all her undersea friends how they can do so too. On board pages.
Author: Linda J. Tomko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253028175
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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This look at Progressive-era women and innovative cultural practices “blazes a new trail in dance scholarship” (Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year). From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the twentieth century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices. “Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes.” —Choice
Author: Gus Giordano
Publisher: Dance Horizons Book
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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A highly illustrated reference to all aspects of jazz dance by one of the art's most respected teachers.
Author: Claire Masurel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439424769
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Today is Emily's first dance class.
Author: Amanda Malek-Ahmadi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947408241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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It's a special day. The children practice their ballet. But something is odd. Let's count down from 10 to 1 to find the surprise before the class is done.
Author: Melissa R. Klapper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190908688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and on social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like "Ballet Slippers" and "Prima Ballerina;" and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet class. Beginning with the arrival of Russian dancers like Anna Pavlova, who first toured the United States on the eve of World War I, Ballet Class: An American History explores the growth of ballet from an ancillary part of nineteenth-century musical theater, opera, and vaudeville to the quintessential extracurricular activity it is today, pursued by countless children nationwide and an integral part of twentieth-century American childhood across borders of gender, class, race, and sexuality. A social history, Ballet Class takes a new approach to the very popular subject of ballet and helps ground an art form often perceived to be elite in the experiences of regular, everyday people who spent time in barre-lined studios across the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, including children's books, memoirs by professional dancers and choreographers, pedagogy manuals, and dance periodicals, in addition to archival collections and oral histories, this pathbreaking study provides a deeply-researched national perspective on the history and significance of recreational ballet class in the United States and its influence on many facets of children's lives, including gender norms, consumerism, body image, children's literature, extracurricular activities, and popular culture.
