A Choreographed Coup

A Choreographed Coup PDF Author: Jason Wrench
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1839433485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE JASON WRENCH Book two in the Love and Liquidation series Unseen enemies, hidden agendas and a love that defies all odds... The battle against extremism gets personal. Graduate student Blayne Dickenson and boy-band member Ethan Bond are jolted out of their lives when a concert takes a deadly turn, marking the beginnings of a meticulously planned coup on the shadowy organization known as The Foundation. An unexpected, injured visitor thrusts them deeper into this chaos, revealing a conspiracy against Pennington University. As threats mount, Blayne and Ethan' s bond becomes their anchor amid the chaos. Yet, when caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful vendetta, can their love withstand the onslaught? By some, they are honored as heroes, but their accolades come with perilous consequences. A lethal threat shadows their every step, demanding a perilous dance of wit and courage. Can they avert a catastrophic blow from a homegrown extremist group, or will their world crumble? Will their relationship with The Foundation take unexpected twists?

Literature, Modernism, and Dance

Literature, Modernism, and Dance PDF Author: Susan Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199565325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
Literature, Modernism, and Dance explores the complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period

Dance Theatre in Ireland

Dance Theatre in Ireland PDF Author: A. McGrath
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113703548X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCĂ©im Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.

Latin and Caribbean Dance

Latin and Caribbean Dance PDF Author: Margaret Musmon
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 160413481X
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
Describes the history, customs and traditions of Latin American and Caribbean dance.

Moving Otherwise

Moving Otherwise PDF Author: Victoria Fortuna
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190627018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept, "moving otherwise" names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence. Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.

(Post)Socialist Dance

(Post)Socialist Dance PDF Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350408166
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world. It traces hidden and invisibilized legacies over the span of one century, probing questions that can make viewers, artists, and scholars uncomfortable regarding dance histories, memories, circulations and production modes in and around the (post)socialist world. The contributions delve into a variety of dance practices (folk, traditional, ballet, modern, contemporary), modes of dance production (institutionalization processes, festival-making and market logics), and dance circulations (between centres and peripheries, between different genres and styles). The main focus is Eastern Europe (including Russia) but the book also addresses Cuba and China. The book's historical examples make the reader aware, too, of the (post)socialist bodies' influence in today's dance, including in contemporary dance scenes. The (post)socialist context promises to be a prosperous laboratory to explore uncomfortable questions of legitimacy. Whose choreographic work is staged as a 'quality' dance production? Which dance practices are worthy of scholarly study? What are the limits of dance studies' understanding of what dance is or should be? In view of reclaiming the Second World through dance, this book thus probes questions that should be asked today but are not easy to answer; questions that dance practitioners, facilitators, critics, and researchers, including ourselves, are often not at ease with either. In doing so, the cracks of dance history begin to be sealed, and neglected dance practices are written back into history, provided with the academic recognition that they deserve.

Africana

Africana PDF Author: Anthony Appiah
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195170555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3951

Book Description
Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.

The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000

The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000 PDF Author: New York Times Staff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579580599
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Ebony

Ebony PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

The Extraordinary Dance Book T B. 1826

The Extraordinary Dance Book T B. 1826 PDF Author: Sandra Noll Hammond
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193326
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
This facsimile edition of a hitherto unpublished manuscript reveals a beautiful workbook of impeccable penmanship by an early nineteenth-century dancing master. The title page reads Dance Book T B. 1826.Included among the more than thirty ballroom and theater dances are examples of the shauntreuse, allemande, hornpipe, quadrille, and waltz. There are also rare dances with descriptive titles such as Pas Seul, Pas Deux, Pas Trois d'Eggville, Russian Dance, Vestris Gavotte, and Cossack Dance. The importance of the manuscript to both musicians and dancers cannot be overestimated . It includes the earliest known full-length choreographed waltz for two that, through its intricate arm positions, shows the influence of the eighteenth-century contredanse allemande. Photographed in New Zealand by John Casey. The published volume unfortunately contains some miscropped images; a corrigenda leaflet can be downloaded a href="https: //boydellandbrewer.com/media/wysiwyg/431corrigenda.pdf">here/a