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Book Synopsis Tango: Embracing New York City by : Ana Luiza Cortez
Download or read book Tango: Embracing New York City written by Ana Luiza Cortez and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tango is not often associated with New York City. Yet, it thrives in the Big Apple. While not documentary or exhaustive, this photo book aims at introducing the readers to the diverse tango scene of New York City as well as to share the deep emotions and the special moments New Yorkers enjoy when they dance tango.
Book Synopsis More Than Two to Tango by : Anah’ Viladrich
Download or read book More Than Two to Tango written by Anah’ Viladrich and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous fa?ade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for whom tango is both an art form and a means of survival. Ê Based on a highly visible group of performers within the almost hidden population of Argentines in the United States, More than Two to Tango addresses broader questions on the understudied role of informal webs in the entertainment field. Through the voices of both early generations of immigrants and the latest wave of newcomers, Anah’ Viladrich explores how the dancers, musicians, and singers utilize their complex social networks to survive as artists and immigrants. She reveals a diverse community navigating issues of identity, class, and race as they struggle with practical concerns, such as the high cost of living in New York City and affordable health care. Ê ArgentinaÕs social history serves as the compelling backdrop for understanding the trajectory of tango performers, and Viladrich uses these foundations to explore their current unified front to keep tango as their own ÒauthenticÓ expression. Yet social ties are no panacea for struggling immigrants. Even as More Than Two to Tango offers the notion that each person is truly conceived and transformed by their journeys around the globe, it challenges rosy portraits of Argentine tango artists by uncovering how their glamorous representations veil their difficulties to make ends meet in the global entertainment industry. In the end, the portrait of Argentine tango performersÕ diverse career paths contributes to our larger understanding of who may attain the ÒAmerican Dream,Ó and redefines what that means for tango artists.
Book Synopsis Embracing Tango by : Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
Download or read book Embracing Tango written by Gustavo Benzecry Sabá and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Than Two to Tango by : Anahí Viladrich
Download or read book More Than Two to Tango written by Anahí Viladrich and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for whom tango is both an art form and a means of survival. Based on a highly visible group of performers within the almost hidden population of Argentines in the United States, More than Two to Tango addresses broader questions on the understudied role of informal webs in the entertainment field. Through the voices of both early generations of immigrants and the latest wave of newcomers, Anahí Viladrich explores how the dancers, musicians, and singers utilize their complex social networks to survive as artists and immigrants. She reveals a diverse community navigating issues of identity, class, and race as they struggle with practical concerns, such as the high cost of living in New York City and affordable health care. Argentina’s social history serves as the compelling backdrop for understanding the trajectory of tango performers, and Viladrich uses these foundations to explore their current unified front to keep tango as their own “authentic” expression. Yet social ties are no panacea for struggling immigrants. Even as More Than Two to Tango offers the notion that each person is truly conceived and transformed by their journeys around the globe, it challenges rosy portraits of Argentine tango artists by uncovering how their glamorous representations veil their difficulties to make ends meet in the global entertainment industry. In the end, the portrait of Argentine tango performers’ diverse career paths contributes to our larger understanding of who may attain the “American Dream,” and redefines what that means for tango artists.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2 by : Oliver Kent
Download or read book Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2 written by Oliver Kent and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That was magical!" The Embrace can transport your dancing to new levels. Yet it's often fraught with contradictions. Which way is the "right" way to hold your hand, place your feet and so on? With clear illustrated instructions, this book show you step by step how to: Accelerate your learning Avoid the danger of being Not Even Wrong Find the invisible Frame within your Embrace Understand why focussing on steps can stop you seeing what's happening with the Embrace Dance with more "forceful" partners Personalise your embrace Why there's so many apparent contradictions in the way Tango is taught and performed and more! Written for dancers of all ages and experience, Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2 will help you take your understanding of the embrace to a new level and avoid the pitfalls along the way.
Download or read book Troubadour written by Tadeusz Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘ New York, New York City ‘ New York, New York City you, the dazzling Melting Pot with never ending dreams and the reality splendid in all images there can ever be projected on the screen of life, the NYC life You, America’s Tower of Babel ! New York, New York City you, the vibrating town of diligent men and women at work, in love, family life busy in shaping destiny under the NYC hilarious skies You, the scenic Big Apple ! To this generous, life-giving city I yearn, my Lord To those soaring skyscrapers flirting with the NYC skies I yearn, my Lord To this city of eternal life where my soul settled permanently I yearn, my Lord To this city of humanity’s best I yearn, yearn, my Lord ! New York, New York City you, the hub of day and night activity for the noble New Yorkers descendants of immigrants from four points of the world fulfilling their goals You, the Center of the Universe. New York, New York City you, with your Broadway Theaters Metropolitan Museum of Art Empire State Building many more wonders all bringing expressions of pride upon faces of New Yorkers. To this generous, life-giving city I yearn, my Lord To those soaring skyscrapers flirting with the NYC skies I yearn, my Lord To this city of eternal life where my soul settled permanently I yearn, my Lord To this city of humanity’s best I yearn, yearn, my Lord ! New York, New York City you, my childhood in Central Park unforgettable Bronx Zoo the Village, Circle Line Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim one You, the city of my true love. New York, New York City I am your troubadour adventurer with the torn soul any time when away feeling then Judas kiss but when back a happy New Yorker feeling the presence of thy Lord. To this generous, life-giving city I yearn, my Lord To those soaring skyscrapers flirting with the NYC skies I yearn, my Lord To this city of eternal life where my soul settled permanently I yearn, my Lord To this city of humanity’s best I yearn, yearn, my Lord !
Book Synopsis The Tango Effect by : Kate Swindlehurst
Download or read book The Tango Effect written by Kate Swindlehurst and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every hour in the UK, two people are told they have Parkinson’s disease. For Kate Swindlehurst, the diagnosis was a turning point: refusing to be defined by her condition, she chose instead a radically different path. This is the story of an extraordinary year. It begins with a single tango lesson but grows into an exploration of the dance itself, its history, its music and its incredible healing potential. It is a year in which Kate explored and documented ‘the tango effect’ – the emotional and social benefits of dance on Parkinson’s symptoms. Her personal account echoes what science is beginning to tell us about the powerful and transformative impact of Argentine tango. Intimate and unflinching, The Tango Effect challenges our perceptions of living with a chronic condition. Above all, it takes an honest look at the dark side of the illness while celebrating moments of joy, interconnectedness, acceptance and liberation.
Download or read book LOVER written by Thaddeus Tadeusz Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is anthology of romantic poems addressed to readers who love poems with erotic scents. Love is the central theme in all my poems and reading the poems feels like hearing some symphonic play or listening to pop and rock hits on radio. I was born in mountainous Rajcza, south Poland where I spent my childhood and teenage years, and where I also studied and participated in the so called Solidarity movement against the communist regime. I emigrated out of Poland yet when Poland was still in the Soviet thaw and I became a citizen of New Zealand within five years. I lived in marvelous Wellington, the capital of NZ, called often ' Windy Wellington ', due to the very many winds blowing through the city both from the Pacific and nearby mountains. While in New Zealand I lived there also in Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula for a while. Afterwards I traveled worldwide, I had been amongst others in China and finally settled down in Antwerp, Belgium. The United States was always the country of my final destination and my departure from Poland, just eight days before martial law was in fact me emigrating to America which I have never so far had luck to get to. In the meantime I am feeling myself quite comfortable in the European Union, a great project of all Europeans which came true. America and especially New York City with its Statue of Liberty, remain my dream. Freedoms cherished by America are the unstoppable trend and I myself am fully behind it, wishing the same to all individuals across the world, freedoms, human rights, love ...
Download or read book Tango Lessons written by Meghan Flaherty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman’s story of learning to dance, and becoming comfortable in her own skin and in the arms of others: “Witty, incisive [and] vibrantly intelligent.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Tango was an unlikely choice for Meghan Flaherty. A young woman living with the scars of past trauma, she was terrified of being touched and shied away from real passion. But by her late twenties, she knew something had to change. So she dug up an old dream and tried on her dancing shoes. In tango, there’s a leader and a follower, and, traditionally, the woman follows. As Meghan moved from beginner classes to the late-night dance halls of New York’s vibrant tango underground, she discovered that more than any footwork, the hardest and most essential lesson of the dance was to follow with strength and agency; to find her balance, regardless of the lead. And as she broke her own rule—never mix romance and tango—she started to apply those lessons in every corner of her life. Written in wry, lyrical prose, and beautifully enriched by the vivid history and culture of the dance, Tango Lessons is a transformative story of conquering your fears, living your dreams, and enjoying the dizzying freedom found in the closest embrace. “Like Sweetbitter, this is a memoir of a young woman trying to make it in contemporary New York City. Like H Is for Hawk and Julie and Julia, it is also portrait of obsession...Flaherty is self-aware and writes beautifully.”—New York Journal of Books “Flaherty's writing contains moments of real beauty.”—Newsday
Download or read book Global Tangos written by Melissa A. Fitch and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural impact of Argentine tango in the world by assembling an unusual array of cultural narratives created in almost thirty countries, all of which show how tango has mixed and mingled in the global imaginary, sometimes in wildly unexpected forms. Topics include Tango Barbie and Ken, advertising for phone sex, the presence of tango in political upheavals in the Middle East and in animated Japanese children’s television programming, gay tango porn, tango orchestras and composers in World War II concentration camps, global tango protests aimed at reclaiming public space, the transformation of Buenos Aires as a result of tango tourism, and the use of tango for palliative care and to treat other ailments. They also include the global development of queer tango theory, activism, and festivals. Global Tangos shows how the rise in social media has heralded a new era of political activism, artistry, solidarity, and engagement in the world, one in which virtual global tango communities have indeed become very “real” social and support networks. The text engages some key concepts from contemporary critics in the fields of tourism studies, geography, dance studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, transnational studies, television studies, feminism, and queer theory. Global Tangos underscores the interconnectedness of cultural identity, economics, politics, and power in the production, marketing, distribution, and circulation of global images related to tango—and, by extension, Latin America—that travel the world.
Download or read book Dancing Tango written by Kathy Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is—and has always been—embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which—when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories—seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the ‘elsewhere.’ Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Love You, Hate You, Love You by : Tadeusz Hutyra
Download or read book Love You, Hate You, Love You written by Tadeusz Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘ No matter what, Juliet ‘ Having you, my Juliet and though drama is hanging in the air. How many times we danced in the open air sweetly in arms. How many times our kisses brought us into glamorous palaces of love. How many times our minds were no longer deserts but oasis of loving hearts. Even though our constellation is far from the starry one I love you with all my heart. No matter what shall happen no one and nothing shall separate us. We are the lovers of all times larger than life you and me, Romeo and Juliet.
Book Synopsis Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home by : Maria Finn
Download or read book Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home written by Maria Finn and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautifully told. Maria Finn relays her adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, and insight.” —Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria's world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in dance class and the milongas (social dances) she attends regularly in New York City, we discover with her the fascinating culture, history, music, moves, and beauty of the Argentine tango. With each new dance step she learns—the embrace, the walk, the sweep, the exit—she is one step closer to returning to the world of the living. Eventually Maria travels to Buenos Aires, the birthplace of tango, and finds the confidence to try romance again. As exhilarating as the dance itself, the story whirls us into the center of the ballroom dancing craze. And buoyed by the author's humor and passion, it imparts surprising insights about how to get on with life after you've lost in love.
Book Synopsis SYMPHONY OF FREE SPIRITS by : Tadeusz Hutyra
Download or read book SYMPHONY OF FREE SPIRITS written by Tadeusz Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' Lovers of Universe ' You're in my arms, we're in the arms of stars dancing together in the starlight while passionately kissing each other Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust our love is threaded of rays from the stars and we're continuing to kiss one another we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe And though we're standing on a beach in the embrace of moonlighted night chatting in a New York cafe till the late night hours or speeding up a car direction California we're embraced as much by the stars shining us brilliantly from the luminous sky Though we're sitting on dangerous cliffs overlooking the powers of the Poseidon's sea no matter whether together or far away from one another we're still the galactic adventurers guardians of Universe in love The echoes of our deep love spread fast across Scottish land masses across the Alps, across Carpathians across mountains of the Caucasus flying like a mysterious jet plane and ending somewhere there in China still being echoed from a wall to a wall of the ancient Chinese Wall There is no rest to our passionate love 'cause we are brought on our starship into furthest dimensions of the many galactics dancing our love in the never ending starlit space singing our love to the tunes of various sounds of Universe and kissing each other with the energy borrowed from the stars no need really to return what's borrowed Oh, my darling, we're destined for each other never to be split, always together even if the winds bring us far apart even if fate not always is favorable yet we're acquiescent to whatever might happen 'cause we know nothing can split us We're simply dancing in the arms of stars dancing together in the starlight while passionately kissing each other Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust our love is threaded of rays from the stars and we're continuing to kiss one another we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe No matter what happens we're together no matter where you are or I am we're together Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shakespeare's Hamlet The Bells brought to life by Edgar Allan Poe Whatever it might be we're together destined to one another, married by our love 'cause our love is one, one and only one 'cause our souls are one soul, our hearts are one heart 'cause our desires are one desire, our desire 'cause all we are are two halves being whole 'cause our spirits are mixed by wand of love into elixir, the elixir of love Wow, we're dancing in adrenalized Tomorrowland dancing in Amsterdam's Arena at Sensation White dancing frenziedly in New York's Boulevard on Mount Victoria in windy Wellington's starry night dancing among stars, we, the lovers of Universe !! Earth and stars are the fields of our love we're the lovers since Adam and Eve the amaranthine lovers of Universe drinking elixirs of love from our lips elixirs which form us all to who we are we, the lovers of Universe, forevermore
Book Synopsis Tango Dance and Music by : Kendra Stepputat
Download or read book Tango Dance and Music written by Kendra Stepputat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore tango argentino as translocal practice, with a focus on the European context. Beyond that, the book crosses borders in the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods, ranging from participant observation to statistical data evaluation, including optical motion capture for movement analysis. Most of all, it is an important contribution to the emerging field of choreomusicology, focusing on movement and sound structures, dancers and musicians, and the complex relations between all of these factors that all have their share in shaping tango argentino practice.
Book Synopsis Twelve Minutes of Love by : Kapka Kassabova
Download or read book Twelve Minutes of Love written by Kapka Kassabova and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story of the dance, from its Afro roots to its sequined stars and back. Twelve Minutes of Love is a timeless tale of exile and longing, death and desire, love and belonging.
Book Synopsis Passionate Embrace by : Sandra Vander Schaaf
Download or read book Passionate Embrace written by Sandra Vander Schaaf and published by Clements Publishing Group Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passionate Embrace: Faith, Flesh, Tango " is a story of desire, intimacy, and transformation, set in the sumptuous world of Argentine Tango. Sandra Vander Schaaf shares the provocative tale of an unexpected love affair with the world's most sensual dance, and an equally unexpected experience of spiritual renewal on the dance floor. This is a vivid, eloquent, honest glimpse of Christian faith and doubt and the exquisite relationship between body and soul. "Captivating, credible, totally without cliches." - Eugene Peterson, author of "The Message and Telling It Slant" "Vander Schaaf daringly compares learning to dance tango with learning to pray; each is a movement of faith. That this venture into physical intimacy was the means of grace that led her to greater spiritual intimacy with God is the refreshing surprise of this striking and moving account of renewal." - Luci Shaw, author of "Breath for the Bones" and "Adventure of Ascent" “Refreshingly different . . . A very honest and brave book . . . . . . intoxicating.” – Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
