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Book Synopsis Dancing With Naima by : Desiree Parkman
Download or read book Dancing With Naima written by Desiree Parkman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Naima as she prepares for her first day of dance school. From the ballet barre to the center floor Naima discovers a love and excitement for ballet as well as the dedication and discipline it takes to become a ballerina.
Book Synopsis Dancing Revelations by : Thomas DeFrantz
Download or read book Dancing Revelations written by Thomas DeFrantz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--Jacket.
Download or read book Three Wishes written by Anne Shade and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she took her first trip to the little island of Nosy Be off the coast of Madagascar, Elise Porter has been drawn back to it time and again. When a mysterious vendor sells her an antique, jewel-encrusted oil lamp, Elsie is thoroughly surprised by the mystical appearance of a beautiful and scantily clad woman offering to grant her three wishes. Naima is a Jinni, and she has a wish of her own. A cursed princess’s spirit, who also happens to be the Jinni’s wife Aliya, has taken residence within Elise and needs to be brought forth to free them from their curse. When Naima is summoned by a human who not only possesses her lamp but also the spirit of her long-lost wife, she can’t believe her luck. After centuries dreaming of the moment when she and Aliya would be reunited, the reality of what freeing her could mean for Elise has Naima wondering if the price of freedom is worth the sacrifice. Elise and Naima must fight their growing feelings for each other as Elise wages an internal battle with Aliya, and they receive assistance from a very unlikely source.
Book Synopsis Night's Dancer by : Yaël Tamar Lewin
Download or read book Night's Dancer written by Yaël Tamar Lewin and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina Winner of the The Marfield Prize / National Award for Arts Writing (2011) Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night's Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South. Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yaël Tamar Lewin then picks up the thread of Collins's story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and colleagues to explore Collins's development as a dancer, choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.
Book Synopsis Dancing in the Sun by : Naima Prevots
Download or read book Dancing in the Sun written by Naima Prevots and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis After The Laughter by : Ronald E. Kimmons
Download or read book After The Laughter written by Ronald E. Kimmons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his nonfiction book, An Infinity of Interpretations, Dr. Kimmons explores a simple thesis: “Life has no meaning except what we assign to it.” In this new fiction book, After the Laughter, Dr. Kimmons continues exploration of that simple thesis, but in this book he writes about a young man’s existential quest to find meaning for his life, in part, through liaisons with women he encounters over several decades in various places at home and abroad. As it often happens in life, he ultimately finds love and meaning for life in an unexpected place and at an unexpected time. If you are intellectually alive and/or like romance books (with a lot of sex thrown in), you should read this novel about a search for joie de vivre and meaning in life, love, and sex.
Book Synopsis The Flamenco Cave 3. Life is a Story - story.one by : Monika Spiess
Download or read book The Flamenco Cave 3. Life is a Story - story.one written by Monika Spiess and published by BOD GmbH DE. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sudden instrumental flamenco music, 5 gypsies dancing flamenco with great art, a fall to the tablao made of white rocks dyed with black polka dots, a fire that slides from left to right, a mysterious glass display case and a black high-heeled shoe that flew through the flamenco cave. Will Zaira manage to break that glass display case with her black high-heeled shoe? Will the gypsy from Albaicín manage to survive the mysterious fire that was approaching Samara? Will Saray, Naima, Zaira, Yanet and Samara survive? Find out below.
Book Synopsis Visions of the East by : Matthew Bernstein
Download or read book Visions of the East written by Matthew Bernstein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on orientalism in American and European cinema
Book Synopsis The Secrets of Egypt ? Dance, Life and Beyond by : Joana Saahirah
Download or read book The Secrets of Egypt ? Dance, Life and Beyond written by Joana Saahirah and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time I had a dream and I chased it. This Magical Book tells about my Adventure in Egypt, the Price we pay for our Dreams and the Wisdom we gather on the Journey up the Mountain. Almost killed, chased, shocked and amazed with an Egyptian (fascinating) underworld very few foreigners ever get to know. How did I end up living and performing in Egypt for almost a decade, succeeding in my career against all odds? How did I do it* when everyone yelled: YOU CANT?! The answer to these - and other - intriguing questions is above rational understanding; its Magic were talking about. In my heart, I knew I had to go to Egypt and rescue Oriental Dances Soul (my own Soul) so that the World could remember, once more, why WE ARE ALIVE*. This Book is a about my real life Adventure - my (OUR) Journey*. I can hear the deserts wind whispering: it was never only about the dance, darling. Oriental Dance is just a Door - covered in veils and luminous sequins - to a Temple where much about Lifes Adventure is to be learnt. Welcome to Egypt: welcome to the World (enjoy the Ride*)!"
Download or read book Dance for Export written by Naima Prevots and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhower inaugurated a program of cultural exchange that sent American dancers and other artists to political "hot spots" overseas. This peacetime gambit by a warrior hero was a resounding success. Among the artists chosen for international duty were José Limón, who led his company on the first government-sponsored tour of South America; Martha Graham, whose famed ensemble crisscrossed southeast Asia; Alvin Ailey, whose company brought audiences to their feet throughout the South Pacific; and George Balanchine, whose New York City Ballet crowned its triumphant visits to Western Europe and Japan with an epoch-making tour of the Soviet Union in 1962. The success of Eisenhower's program of cultural export led directly to the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Washington's Kennedy Center. Naima Prevots draws on an array of previously unexamined sources, including formerly classified State Department documents, congressional committee hearings, and the minutes of the Dance Panel, to reveal the inner workings of "Eisenhower's Program," the complex set of political, fiscal, and artistic interests that shaped it, and the ever-uneasy relationship between government and the arts in the US. CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Foner.
Book Synopsis Dancing in Blackness by : Halifu Osumare
Download or read book Dancing in Blackness written by Halifu Osumare and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career. Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching "jazz ballet" and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln Center. After doing dance fieldwork in Ghana, Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oakland’s black dance scene. Osumare introduces readers to some of the major artistic movers and shakers she collaborated with throughout her career, including Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jean-Leon Destine, Alvin Ailey, and Donald McKayle. Now a black studies scholar, Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Her memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman.
Book Synopsis Dancing the World Smaller by : Rebekah J. Kowal
Download or read book Dancing the World Smaller written by Rebekah J. Kowal and published by Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. This book was released on 2020 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honoring difference.
Book Synopsis The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training by : Doran George
Download or read book The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training written by Doran George and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide, helping to shape the look and sensibilities of both dancers and choreographers and thereby influencing much of the dance we see onstage worldwide. One of the first books to examine Somatics in detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio, The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements. The book traces the history of Somatics, and it also details how Somatics developed in different locales, engaging with local politics and dance histories so as to develop a distinctive pedagogy that nonetheless shared fundamental concepts with other national and regional contexts. In so doing it shows how dance training can inculcate an embodied politics by guiding and shaping the experience of bodily sensation, constructing forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and summoning bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout, the author focuses on the concept of the natural body and the importance of a natural way of moving as central to the claims that Somatics makes concerning its efficacy and legitimacy.
Book Synopsis About the Boy by : Leah Nicole Whitcomb
Download or read book About the Boy written by Leah Nicole Whitcomb and published by Starclay Publishing. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming romance about an autistic teenager who feels misunderstood in her small Southern town until a golden boy finds his way into her orbit. With forced proximity, Black spirituality, and a slow burn romance—this YA debut is perfect for fans of Elise Bryant, Nicola Yoon, and Talia Hibbert. Sixteen-year-old Naima Jones can't do anything right. She fidgets in class, misinterprets social cues, and cries frequently. On top of that, her mom expects Naima to “control herself” and not get in trouble during her junior year. An impossible ask! Naima tries to honor her mom’s rule to avoid her disappointment but fails miserably thanks to Kamron Barksdale, the new kid and golden boy who upstages her in AP Biology. After a heated classroom debate, Naima yells at Kamron and lands herself in the principal’s office. As fate would have it—or rather her AP Bio teacher—Naima is forced to be Kamron’s lab partner. Her future as an honor student rides on her getting along with him long enough to get an A. The two are off to a rough start when Kamron accidentally triggers Naima’s sensory issues. As their after-school lab sessions turn into late-night confessions, Naima thinks they can be friends, possibly more, or maybe she's misinterpreting that as well.
Book Synopsis When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders by : Jennifer Fisher
Download or read book When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders written by Jennifer Fisher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men dance? When Men Dance offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. A first of its kind, this trenchant look at the stereotypes and realities of male dancing brings together contributions from leading and rising scholars of dance from around the world to explore what happens when men dance. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance worlds to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.
Book Synopsis La Meri and Her Life in Dance by : Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
Download or read book La Meri and Her Life in Dance written by Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing biography details the life and work of world dance pioneer La Meri (1899–1988). An American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer, La Meri was ahead of her time in championing cross-cultural dance performances and education, yet she is almost totally forgotten today. In La Meri and Her Life in Dance, Nancy Ruyter introduces readers to a visionary artist who played a pivotal role in dance history. Born in Texas as Russell Meriwether Hughes, La Meri toured throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s, immersing herself in different dance traditions at a time when few American dancers explored styles outside their own. She learned about Indian dance culture from the celebrated Uday Shankar, studied belly dancing with the Moroccan sultan’s top dancer, and took flamenco lessons in Spain. La Meri spread awareness and enjoyment of the world’s myriad forms of expression before it was common for performing artists from these countries to tour internationally. Ruyter describes how La Meri founded the Ethnologic Dance Center in New York City, choreographed innovative works based on various dance cultures for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and other venues, and wrote widely on the styles and techniques of international dance genres. This long-overdue book illustrates that the popularity of world dance today owes much to the trailblazing efforts of La Meri.
Book Synopsis Futures of Dance Studies by : Susan Manning
Download or read book Futures of Dance Studies written by Susan Manning and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts--onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street--and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. Engaging African American and African diasporic studies, Latinx and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Asian American and Asian studies, this anthology demonstrates the relevance of dance analysis to adjacent fields"--
