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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Beyond the Dance
Author: Chan Hon GohPublisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1770490647
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award Nominated for The Rocky Mountain Book Award (An Alberta Children's Choice Book Award) Nominated for the 2003 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction An elegant, expressive dancer, Chan Hon Goh is one of the ballet world’s great stars. She is a brilliant technician possessing a delicate beauty and radiant stage presence. Born in Beijing to dancer parents, she tells the story of their flight to Canada from an oppressive regime that thwarted her father’s career, her rigorous training, and her battle to achieve acceptance as the only Chinese-born prima ballerina in the history of the National Ballet. This fascinating look at the life of a dancer will appeal not only to the legions of Chan Hon Goh’s admirers and to students of ballet, but also to young readers who understand what it is to pursue a dream.
In Stone's Clasp
Author: Christie GoldenPublisher: Luna Books
ISBN: 9780373802296
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kevla of Arukan returns in the next book of four by Christie Golden.
One Last Dance
Author: Anna StonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780648419242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Twenty-eight-year-old Zoe is heartbroken. Her career as a principal dancer in a prestigious London ballet company has just been brought to a screeching halt by an injury. Needing to re-evaluate her future and make sense of life away from center stage, she returns home to the States, where she runs into her former ballet teacher--and once forbidden love--Natasha. Ten years older, and the ice to Zoe's fire, Natasha captured Zoe's heart a decade earlier. Undeniable sparks danced between them, yet they were never able to give in to temptation. When Zoe moved to London, both were left shattered. Neither woman has been able to move on since. Now, they find the same heat smoldering between them, with no reason to resist it. However, the specter of how they last parted still casts a dark shadow on them--one neither woman can seem to let go of. Secrets from the past, desires of the present, and the uncertainty of the future might keep Zoe and Natasha from having their chance at true love. Or perhaps they'll realize fate brought them back together to dance the ultimate pas de deux.
Monica and the Doomed Dance
Author: Diana G. GallagherPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434219828
Category : Fund raising
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Will inter-school rivalries undo all the hard work Monica and her friends have done to help hungry horses?
Cosmic Dance in Stone
Author: Ramu KatakamPublisher:
ISBN: 9789385285547
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
*A semi-philosophical, semi-aesthetic appreciation of the great stone structures of the past*Boasts an abundance of color photographsStone is a material that takes many million years to form. As a result, it offers a sense of permanence. Craftsmen and designers of an earlier era were able to use it most effectively to produce masterpieces of art and architecture. The primordial aspect of stone is perhaps why we feel so full of energy when wandering in areas with an abundance of this material. Stone offers magnificent natural compositions in the vast expanses of the countryside, but man's intervention elevates stone constructions to a whole new level of beauty.The builders of Mahabalipuram, Ellora, Elephanta, Angkor Wat, Badami, and Hampi were concerned not only with creating shelter in harmony with the natural landscape, but also with the numinous sense of elation one experiences when confronted with the architecture of these places. There was a time when man respected the landscape, seeing it as a reflection of his devotion to the creator of this universe. These primordial men also practiced a lifestyle that did not adversely affect the sustaining powers of the earth. Cosmic Dance in Stone is largely a collection of photographs and illustrations that show how their creations, wonderful landscapes of stone, have been devised to transcend space and time. It is an attempt to discover how the designers of the past envisaged structures that could link us to the stars and help us realize the nature of our existence.
The Wonderful World of Dance
Author: Arnold L. HaskellWhat Love Comes to
Author: Ruth StonePublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556593279
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review
Flying Feet
Author: Anna BurgardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Based on a true tale, two master dancers compete for the chance to teach the people of Ballyconneely, Ireland, how to dance.
Cherokee Dance and Drama
Author: Frank Gouldsmith SpeckPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806125800
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dance (including the Booger Dance, which expresses the Cherokees’ anxiety at the white invasion) are to be given only during times of frost, lest they affect the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death. The summer dance (the Green Corn Ceremony and the Ballplayer’s Dance) are associated with crops and vegetation. Other dances are purely for social intercourse and entertainment or are prompted by specific events in the community. When it was first published in 1951, this description of the dances of a conservative Eastern Cherokee band was hailed as a scholarly contribution that could not be duplicated, Frank G. Speak and Leonard Broom had achieved the close and sustained interaction that very best ethnological fieldwork requires. Their principal informant, will West Long, upheld the unbroken ceremonial tradition of the Big Cove band, near Cherokee, North Carolina.
Ants Can't Dance
Author: Ellen B. JacksonPublisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780027476613
Category : Humorous stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
No one believes that Jonathan has an ant that dances, a peanut that talks, and a stone that whistles.