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The Prison Dance

Author : Denise OBrian
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465376739
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Prison Dance written by Denise OBrian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir was inspired by the authors encounter with Palestinian women political prisoners of NeveTirza Beit Soar. It begins with the journey she took through North Africa in 1970 and ends in an Israeli jail. It describes a tumultuous era, the experiences of women travelling unescorted amidst men, and the daily life of an Israeli prison. The tales of The Prison Dance are poignant, sometimes tragic, but frequently humorous, owing to the often bizarre quality of events that transpired. As the author was a dancer, the reader experiences these events through the eyes of Dance. Powerful and affectingGreat subjectstill current in spite of the intervening yearsa valuable document of those times. Hank Schachte, author of Killing time

Dance in Chains

Author : Padraic Kenney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199375763
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Dance in Chains written by Padraic Kenney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the experiences of political prisoners themselves in order to understand who they are, what they do, and why it matters. This is the first book to trace the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters, diaries, and memoirs of political prisoners, as well as the records of regime policies, relate the contest in the prison cell to political conflicts between regime and opposition. Padraic Kenney draws on examples from regimes ranging from communist and fascist to colonial and democratic, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Poland, and South Africa. They include the Fenian Brotherhood, imprisoned in England and Ireland in the 1860s, and their successors during the Irish War of Independence and the Northern Ireland Troubles; Afrikaaners suspected of treason during the Boer War; socialists fighting for Polish freedom in the Russian Empire, and then Communists denouncing "bourgeois" rule in newly-independent Poland; the opponents of apartheid South Africa and stalinist Poland; and those imprisoned by the United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp today. Some prisons are well-known; in others, inmates suffered in obscurity. Through self-organization, education, and actions ranging from solitary non-cooperation to mass hunger strikes, these prisoners transform their incarceration and counter states' efforts to control them. While considering the international movements that have sought to publicize the plight of political prisoners, Dance in Chains examines the actions of the prisoners themselves to find universal answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of their imprisonment.

Prison Writings

Author : Leonard Peltier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250119286
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Prison Writings written by Leonard Peltier and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic

Author : Suchi Branfman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic written by Suchi Branfman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "in 2016, choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman began a five-year choreographic residency inside the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security state men's prison in Norco, California. The project, dubbed "Dancing through prison walls," has developed into a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and how we survive restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty. The act of dancing while incarcerated has revealed itself as profound and liberatory, shining a light on the radical boldness of the incarcerated dancers, even under the intense realities of constant surveillance, enforced physical isolation, and severe limitations on movement. The project and its new focus, "Choreographing our stories," abruptly ended in March 2020, when the California state prison system shut down programming and visitation due to Covid-19. The work was rapidly revised, and the incarcerated dancers - Brandon, Yusef, Richie, Landon, Carlos, Terry, Raymond, Angel, and Clinton began sending out written choreographies from their bunks to the outside world. The resulting deeply imagined work, written between March and May of 2020, was dubbed "Undanced dances through prison walls during a pandemic."--Page [3]

Dancing Behind Bars

Author : Kristie Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Behind Bars written by Kristie Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will investigate the question: How do three community dance practitioners negotiate the challenges of facilitating dance classes in a prison environment? Through interviewing three community dance practitioners I seek to gain an understanding of the challenges they may negotiate, and explore the strategies they may utilize when facilitating dance classes within a prison environment. This study is motivated by my interest to provide dance to prisoners, and the acknowledgement of a lack of research within this area of study. This study may generate insight, awareness and knowledge for various groups of people. The findings may hold significance for myself as a practitioner and researcher, for community dance practitioners working in this and other areas, prison staff and wider communities. This study employed an ethnographic research method, with interviews being the main form of data collection. A post-positive approach assisted in generating narratives that have been analyzed and informed with literature, and specifically Freirean and Foucauldian theories. Through a thematic analysis of the findings there were three key themes identified. These three themes are the prison environment, the attitudes and roles of the practitioners when working in this environment, and issues related to teaching in this context. From the findings it can be noted that facilitating dance classes in a prison environment can be challenging. The main cause for these challenges is the unfamiliarity of prison environment, and the unique social dynamics and prison cultures which exist within the prison. Many strategies were identified to assist in overcoming the challenges. These strategies include utilizing community dance pedagogy (underpinned by various values and principles), working in a team rather than individually, detaching from the environment, sufficient preparation, and tailoring the class content. The narratives shared throughout this thesis present diverse understandings and meanings of facilitating dance within New Zealand prisons. This study may be useful for community dance practitioners who work in prison environments and wider communities. The findings may also provide support those who are considering working within prisons.

The prisoners

Author : Rudolph Crosswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The prisoners written by Rudolph Crosswell and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dangerous Mediations

Author : Áine Mangaoang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501378384
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Mediations written by Áine Mangaoang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities after their YouTube video of Michael Jackson's ground-breaking hit 'Thriller' went viral. Taking this spectacular dance as a point of departure, Dangerous Mediations explores the disquieting development of prisoners performing punishment to a global, online audience. Combining analysis of this YouTube video with first-hand experiences from fieldwork in the Philippine prison, Áine Mangaoang investigates a wide range of interlocking contexts surrounding this user-generated text to reveal how places of punishment can be transformed into spaces of spectacular entertainment, leisure, and penal tourism. In the post-YouTube era, Dangerous Mediations sounds the call for close readings of music videos produced outside of the corporate culture industries. By connecting historical discussions on postcolonialism, surveillance and prison philosophy with contemporary scholarship on popular music, participatory culture and new media, Dangerous Mediations is the first book to ask critical questions about the politics of pop music and audiovisual mediation in early 21st-century detention centres.

The Prison Chronicles

Author : D.K. Lawrence
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578018861
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Prison Chronicles written by D.K. Lawrence and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a societal renegade and his ambition to find contentment. After months of emotional turmoil and self-righteous disdain for commonality, he walked off campus with a ruck-sack, intending to begin living purposefully. On his way toward the east coast, he pulled off an I-87 exit in upstate New York to take a spiritual sabbatical in the beautiful landscapes of the Adirondack Mountains. After a week of meditation and mental catharsis, he continued toward the east coast, making a detour through Montreal where he would be unjustly arrested. The Prison Chronicles is an enthralling discord detailing the clash between heinous violence and dehumanization among addicts, fiends, thieves, and murderers and the enduring good in all people-convicts and samaritans alike. Writing with a tenacious yet graceful fervor, Lawrence evokes a heartfelt revelation in the reader as he describes a gratitude for home and reverence for life with the culmination of his first novel.

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Author : Monika Zgustova
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590511840
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Dressed for a Dance in the Snow written by Monika Zgustova and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across the Soviet Union, prisoners are said to have composed and memorized thousands of verses. Galya Sanova, born in a Siberian gulag, remembers reading from a hand-stitched copy of Little Red Riding Hood. Irina Emelyanova passed poems to the male prisoner she had grown to love. In this way, the arts lent an air of humanity to the women’s brutal realities. These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human perseverance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history.

Performing Arts in Prisons

Author : Michael Balfour
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1789380162
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Performing Arts in Prisons written by Michael Balfour and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.

Dance in Chains

Author : Padraic Kenney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190840075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dance in Chains written by Padraic Kenney and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political prisoner is a creation of the modern era, in which states deploy police, courts, and prisons against organized opposition movements. 'Dance in Chains' traces the history of political imprisonment from the 1860s through the present day, using the struggles of opponents from a wide variety of regimes.

Secret of the Dance Read-Along

Author : Andrea Spalding
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459817605
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Secret of the Dance Read-Along written by Andrea Spalding and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Aboriginal elder Alfred Scow and award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborate to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance.

The Dance

Author : Joan Cass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786422319
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Dance written by Joan Cass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-12-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a handbook for the viewer. By presenting historical and artistic perspectives of dance, dance events are made more approachable and appreciation for the art form is heightened. The choreographic components of body language, content, structure, music, design and interpretation are included. Also discussed is the development of critical reaction over time. Examples are drawn from Western theatrical dance and worldwide cultural variations. Terms are explained throughout the text, and an extensive bibliography gives sources in print and on tape for further study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

That Deadman Dance

Author : Kim Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829282
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book That Deadman Dance written by Kim Scott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy's young life the ships have been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia, where Bobby's people, the Noongar people, have always lived. Bobby, smart, resourceful and eager to please, has befriended the settlers, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and work to establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine.But slowly - by design and by hazard - things begin to change. Not everyone is so pleased with the progress of the white colonists. Livestock mysteriously starts to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are 'accidents' and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will for ever change the future of his country.That Deadman Dance is haunted by tragedy, as most stories of first contact between European and native peoples are. But through Bobby's life, this novel exuberantly explores a moment in time when things might have been different, when black and white lived together in amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world suddenly seemed twice as large and twice as promising.

Dancer from the Dance

Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060937068
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Dancer from the Dance written by Andrew Holleran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.

The Return of the Dancing Master

Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1595586156
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Dancing Master written by Henning Mankell and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: An “absorbing” and “chilling” historical mystery “dripping with evil atmosphere” (The Times, London). December 12, 1945. The Third Reich lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in Bückeburg, Germany. A man carrying a small black bag quickly disembarks and travels to Hamelin, where he disappears behind the prison gates. Early the next day, England’s most experienced hangman executes twelve war criminals. Fifty-four years later, retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Härjedalen, Sweden. The police discover strange tracks in the blood on the floor . . . as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman is a young police officer who has just been diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. When he reads about the murder of his former colleague, he decides to travel north and find out what happened. Soon he is enmeshed in a puzzling investigation with no witnesses and no discernible motives. Terrified of the illness that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he uncovers the links between Molin’s death, World War II, and an underground neo-Nazi network. Mankell’s impeccably researched historical thriller is “a worthy successor to the Wallander whodunits” (The Sunday Telegraph). “[Mankell] never fails to find a deep vein of humanity within the perpetually furrowed brows of his troubled cops.” —Booklist

America is the Prison

Author : Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833878
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book America is the Prison written by Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forc