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Author: Karen Bond Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331995699X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 565
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This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes of nature, philosophy, spirituality, religion, life span, learning, love, family, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more. With contributions from a multi-generational group of artists, community workers, educators, philosophers, researchers, students and health professionals, this volume presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance’s contribution to human life. The volume will interest dance specialists, quality of life researchers, and anyone interested in exploring dance’s contribution to quality of living and being.
Author: Li Cunxin Publisher: Walker Childrens ISBN: 9780802797773 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America. From there his career took flight, and he danced in cities around the world—never forgetting his family, who urged him to follow his dreams.
Author: Li Cunxin Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1742282121 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 524
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In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school – Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China. This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West. Visit the official Mao's Laster Dancer Movie website maoslastdancermovie.com
Author: Dhyanis Carniglia Publisher: ISBN: 9781736480601 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A Travel Memoir by Dhyanis Carniglia. Fleeing with a toddler from a dangerous marriage, Dhyanis travels across several continents on her quest to become a self-sustaining artist. During a time of cataclysmic shifting norms in San Francisco, she sets off with her daughter to live in Quebec, Mexico, The Sierras, Hawaii, England, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, and Egypt. She takes us on her engaging feminist journey, laced with elements of peril and driven by the appetites of youth. Her faith often challenged, Dhyanis follows her heart wherever in the world it leads. In her search for self-expression, Dhyanis becomes a professional belly dancer. With creativity and resilience she overcomes predicaments and self-doubt in her search for her true calling and true love. This book inspires readers to laugh, cry, and dance along with Dhyanis. Her extraordinary adventures may dare you to travel, create, and love.
Author: Jenifer Ringer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 069815150X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 335
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“A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually upbeat account of life on the stage, Dancing Through It is also a coming-of-age story and an inspiring memoir of faith and of triumph over the body issues that torment all too many women and men.
Author: Denise Breton Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services ISBN: 9781568382074 Category : Mysticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Using the poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi as a touchstone, [Breton and Largent] explore the mystic path: what mysticism is, what it offers, and how one can live a mystic's life in the everyday world."--Jacket.
Author: Witold Szabłowski Publisher: Text Publishing ISBN: 1925603369 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Author: Jordan Matter Publisher: Workman Publishing Company ISBN: 9780761189336 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 0
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Dancers After Dark is an amazing celebration of the human body and the human spirit, as dancers, photographed nude and at night, strike poses of fearless beauty. Without a permit or a plan, Jordan Matter led hundreds of the most exciting dancers in the world out of their comfort zones—not to mention their clothes—to explore the most compelling reaches of beauty and the human form. After all the risk and daring, the result is extraordinary: 300 dancers, 400 locations, more than 150 stunning photographs. And no clothes, no arrests, no regrets. Each image highlights the amazing abilities of these artists—and presents a core message to the reader: Say yes rather than no, and embrace the risks and opportunities that life presents.
Author: R. K. Shanahan Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304908852 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
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Lead and Follow, is an in depth study for all who love dance. In it you will find seven great discussions on aspects relate to the parallels found between life and dance instruction. The author includes his thoughts and experiences taking place over several years as a professional dance teacher, with dozens of interviews with students of dance, and some well known professionals.
Author: Karen Bond Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331995699X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 565
Book Description
This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes of nature, philosophy, spirituality, religion, life span, learning, love, family, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more. With contributions from a multi-generational group of artists, community workers, educators, philosophers, researchers, students and health professionals, this volume presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance’s contribution to human life. The volume will interest dance specialists, quality of life researchers, and anyone interested in exploring dance’s contribution to quality of living and being.
Author: Karen Bond
Author: Li Cunxin
Author: Danielle Goldman
Author: Li Cunxin
Author: Dhyanis Carniglia
Author: Jenifer Ringer
Author: Denise Breton
Author: Witold Szabłowski
Author: Jordan Matter
Author: R. K. Shanahan
Author: Karen Bond