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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Playground
Author: Recreation
Author: Dance Injuries
Author: Jeffrey A. RussellPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1718211864
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Dance Injuries presents a holistic wellness model and in-depth coverage of how to reduce the risk of injury in dance and how to care for injuries properly. Nearly 200 full-color illustrations and 150 photos enhance understanding to properly train dancers technically, physically, and mentally.
Dancing on My Ashes
Author: Heather GilionPublisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1607998718
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
She Reads Truth
Author: Raechel MyersPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433688980
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Born out of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of women who Raechel and Amanda have walked alongside as they walk with the Lord, She Reads Truth is the message that will help you understand the place of God's Word in your life.
My Mom and Me Together We Dance Simply Living with Aspergers and Tourettes
Author: Emily Faehn-SheehanPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440115192
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Living with Aspergers can be a difficult and challenging time for all who live in your home. It may also be hard for those on the outside looking in, and to have understanding. My son has AS, together we have wrote this book to give a better understanding of what a day is like having, as well as living with AS. In our home, we try to make it as "Simple" as we can. It is not always an easy task, but we try. Come and share in our lives, as we share our story with you. There are days as the parent (caregiver) that we feel as if we are alone. You are never alone...
Dance Magazine
Author: Companion to the Calendar
Author: Mary Ellen HynesPublisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN: 9781568540115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This superb resource and guide for children and adults alike answers all sorts of "who" and "what" and "why" questions about saints, the liturgical seasons, Jewish and Muslim holy days, and significant national holidays. You will find an amazing variety of information on how these people and days hold meaning for our lives today. Use this book in conjunction with LTP's Year of Grace calendar in the home or in the classroom. A list of suggested readings, a bibliography and a handy index are included.
Love Song for Dancing Strings
Author: Marilyn Ekdahl RaviczPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146283227X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Forget the flute case. Get your butt behind me and run! Weve got to make it to the house, Gino. With that desperate plea, Sophia, a young and talented puppeteer, chides and hastens her youthful flautist-companion, Gino, to run for home and safety. They must escape the German landmines about to destroy the heart of Florence. It is August of 1944. The Germans are losing World War II, but angry at Italys surrender and negotiated alliance with the Allies, their withdrawals from Italy become hot rakes of needless destruction, aided by fervent neo-Fascists propped up by Hitler-backed Mussolini. The withdrawing Wehrmacht destroys many villages and towns, loots artworks and continues to conscript workers, deport Jews and jail or murder defectors. The stage is set for tensions at every level: between German and Allied military forces; between partisans and liberals in Italy and Spain and neo-Fascists across Europe; between Communist/Socialist parties and conservative Roman Catholic support of Fascism in Italy and Spain; between starving Italian women and children and occupying armies; and between Jews who hide and struggle to survive and those who support the Nazi final solution. On the August night the departing German Wehrmacht activates its landmines and destroys many magnificent renaissance buildings and Arno River bridges in Florence, Sophia, a brilliant puppeteer whose family has for generations operated a famous marionette theater, and her flautist, Gino, a refugee youth she befriends, hide in her cellar. They survive the night of terrifying explosions, although the mines destroy much of the back wall of their house. Their home is damaged and unsafe, and Sophia who has used marionettes as cover when acting as a courier for the partisans in a local cafe must flee. Gino, a young and strong adolescent must leave with her in order to escape German labor camp conscriptions. The partial destruction of the back wall of Sophias house reveals a hidden storeroom they think was once an old wine cellar. Searching for things to take with them or trade on the black market, they force open an old trunk and discover an ancient manuscript, some gold ducats, a few not-too-valuable gemstones and a roll of drawings Sophia thinks are backdrops for their stage. She reasons they were discarded with unused, exotic porcelain marionette parts and old scripts. Sophia and Gino realize they must survive alone and without family support. Sophias father is a conscripted worker, and her brothers are soldiers in different armies: one in Italy, and an older brother, Achille, who disappeared from his International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Ginos parents died during bombing raids, and Sophia has promised to care for and protect him. Rather than hide and risk discovery or death, they decide to make their way to Barcelona to find Sophias older brother. Their identification papers and ration cards are buried by debris, and they escape with a few articles of clothing, several marionettes, a folding traveling stage, and selected items from those discovered in the newly revealed storeroom: a mysterious, ancient manuscript they later learn is the memoir of a thirteenth century trading trip through the middle east to South China made before Marco Polo by a Jewish merchant from Ancona; gold ducats that prove basic to survival; and the roll of renaissance drawings that later prove to be valuable for the renovation of their lives. Much of the plot turns on the odd fact that the thirteenth century merchant who wrote the memoir-manuscript has the same family name as Sophia. Moreover, its cover page bears the signature of Sophias father (among many others) and includes a written charge to care for the manuscript and related objects. They cannot leave it behind. Who was this merchant who bore the same family name? An ancestor? Or is the do
A Body of Work
Author: David HallbergPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476771170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American story marred by intense bullying—and culminating in his hard-won comeback, Hallberg’s “moving and intelligent” (Daniel Mendelsohn) memoir dives deep into life as an artist as he wrestles with ego, pushes the limits of his body, and searches for ecstatic perfection and fulfillment as one of the world’s most acclaimed ballet dancers. Rich in detail ballet fans will adore, Hallberg presents an “unsparing…inside look” (The New York Times) and also reflects on universal and relatable themes like inspiration, self-doubt, and perfectionism as he takes you into daily classes, rigorous rehearsals, and triumphant performances, searching for new interpretations of ballet’s greatest roles. He reveals the loneliness he felt as a teenager leaving America to join the Paris Opera Ballet School, the ambition he had to tame as a new member of American Ballet Theatre, and the reasons behind his headline-grabbing decision to be the first American to join the top rank of Bolshoi Ballet, tendered by the Artistic Director who would later be the victim of a vicious acid attack. Then, as Hallberg performed throughout the world at the peak of his abilities, he suffered a crippling ankle injury and botched surgery leading to an agonizing retreat from ballet and an honest reexamination of his entire life. Combining his powers of observation and memory with emotional honesty and artistic insight, Hallberg has written a great ballet memoir and an intimate portrait of an artist in all his vulnerability, passion, and wisdom. “Candid and engrossing” (The Washington Post), A Body of Work is a memoir “for everyone with a heart” (DC Metro Theater Arts).