Dance Canada

Author : James Neufeld
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781459701229

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Passion to Dance by James Neufeld Pdf

This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics. Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for dance as a living, evolving art form. From catch-as-catch-can beginnings – borrowed quarters, tiny stages, enormous dreams the National Ballet has emerged as one of North America’s foremost dance troupes. The company at sixty is a company of its time, engaged in creating challenging new work, yet committed to maintaining the classics of the past, favourites like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker,and The Sleeping Beauty. One hundred and fifty photographs from the company’s archives illustrate this definitive history, filled with eyewitness accounts, backstage glimpses, and fascinating detail. This is a record of one of Canada’s boldest cultural experiments, a book to enjoy now and keep forever.

Author : Yuen
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1777714605

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The Wondrous World of Social Dancing in Canada: Come Dance Ballroom, Salsa, Square-Dance and Argentine Tango with Me! by Yuen Pdf

The books details how Canadians who dance for social reasons have made it: a fun activity, exceptional exercise, spiritual awakening, and a therapeutic medium.

Author : Allana C. Lindgren,Batia Boe Stolar,Clara Sacchetti
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771124843

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Moving Together by Allana C. Lindgren,Batia Boe Stolar,Clara Sacchetti Pdf

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations. Examples include Fijian dance in Vancouver; Japanese dance in Lethbridge; Danish, Chinese, Kathak, and Flamenco dance in Toronto; African and European contemporary dance styles in Montréal; and Ukrainian dance in Cape Breton. Interviews with Indigenous and Middle Eastern dance artists along with an artist statement by a Bharata Natyam and contemporary dance choreographer provide valuable artist perspectives. Contributors offer strategies to decolonize dance education and also challenge longstanding critiques of multiculturalism. Moving Together demonstrates that dance is at the cutting edge of rethinking the contours of race and ethnicity in Canada and is necessary reading for scholars, students, dance artists and audiences, and everyone interested in thinking about the future of racial and ethnic pluralism in Canada.

Author : Jennifer Dance
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459731851

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Hawk by Jennifer Dance Pdf

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a star athlete until a serious illness yanks him out of competition and into a fight for his life. Struggling to recover, he comes across a young osprey trapped in a tailings pond, helpless. Rescuing the bird gives Hawk a new purpose in life, if he can survive to see it through.

Author : Jennifer Dance
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459708112

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Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance Pdf

This novel tells the story of Red Wolf, a young First Nations boy forced to move into a residential school and assume a new identity. Paralleling his story is that of Crooked Ear, an orphaned wolf pup he has befriended. Both must learn to survive in the white man's world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:717134195

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Danse Au Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Dance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014783968

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Dance Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Canada. Canadian Heritage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:612979226

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Dance in Canada by Canada. Canadian Heritage Pdf

Author : Andrea Spalding,Alfred Scow
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459817609

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Secret of the Dance Read-Along by Andrea Spalding,Alfred Scow Pdf

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. 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.

Author : Charles Blattberg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0773525963

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Shall We Dance? by Charles Blattberg Pdf

Charles Blattberg shows that while a just politics based on dialogue is at the core of Canadians' sense of ourselves as citizens, our current forms of dialogue are inadequate. To some, we should be pleading before authorities responsible for upholding a unified foundation for our politics. Pierre Trudeau and his followers, for example, advocate a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that trumps any values not contained within it. To others, we ought to be true to the longstanding Canadian political tradition of compromise and so negotiate our conflicts, a form of dialogue that strives for accommodation rather than trumping. Blattberg argues, however, that both of these approaches have largely failed us. To him, the preferred form of dialogue in Canadian politics today should be that of conversation. As he shows, only conversation aims for the genuine reconciliation of conflict; only it will help us realize the common good that is at the heart of a truly patriotic Canadian politics.

Author : Charlene Bearhead,Wilson Bearhead
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781553798545

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Siha Tooskin Knows the Love of the Dance by Charlene Bearhead,Wilson Bearhead Pdf

Thundering drums, rattling hooves, clinking jingles—come along with Paul, Jeff, and Uncle Lenard to the powwow! Paul Wahasaypa—Siha Tooskin—has invited his friend, Jeff, to a powwow. It’s Jeff’s very first powwow, and is he ever nervous! What if he says or does the wrong thing? Grass dancers, Fancy Shawl dancers, Chicken dancers—what does it all mean? Follow along as Jeff learns all about the dances and their beautiful traditions. See you at the powwow! The Siha Tooskin Knows series uses vivid narratives and dazzling illustrations in contemporary settings to share stories about an 11-year-old Nakota boy.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0771047479

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Dance on the Earth by Margaret Laurence Pdf

In a writing career spanning nearly three decades, Margaret Laurence became one of the most celebrated and widely read authors in the world. In this, her final work, Margaret Laurence reveals the story of her fascinating life, the process of her writing, and the people and emotional journeys which accompanied it. She relates her experiences living in different cultures; the issues and causes she so passionately upheld; her personal battle against censorship. She also pays tribute to the three women from whom she drew important spiritual strength. Including a selection of her articles, speeches, and letters - many never before published - and photographs selected by Margaret Laurence from her personal family albums, Dance on the Earth is a book of celebration and exploration in which Margaret Laurence speaks openly about her place in the world as a woman, a writer, and a concerned human being.

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544313347

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Winter Dance by Marion Dane Bauer Pdf

A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.

Author : William Toffan
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771963268

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Watching the Devil Dance by William Toffan Pdf

The unbelievable true story of Canada’s first known spree killer, told by a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In June 1966, Matthew Charles Lamb took his uncle’s shotgun and wandered down Ford Blvd in Windsor, Ontario. At the end of the bloody night, two teenagers lay dead, with multiple others injured after an unprovoked shooting spree. In his investigation into Lamb’s story, Will Toffan pieces together the troubled childhood and history of violence that culminated in the young man’s dubious distinction as Canada’s first known spree killer—at which point the story becomes, the author writes “too strange for fiction.” Travelling from the border city streets, to the courtroom, to the Oak Ridge rehabilitation centre, and finally Rhodesia, Watching the Devil Dance is both a thrilling narrative about a shocking true crime and its bizarre aftermath and an insightful analysis of the 1960s criminal justice system.

Author : Giles Andreae
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408345375

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Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae Pdf

Number One bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance from author Giles Andreae has been delighting children for over 20 years. Gerald the tall giraffe would love to join in with the other animals at the Jungle Dance, but everyone knows that giraffes can't dance . . . or can they? A funny, touching and triumphant picture book story about a giraffe who finds his own tune and confidence too, with joyful illustrations from Guy Parker Rees and a foiled cover. ... wonderfully funny. - Independent A fantastically funny and wonderfully colourful romp of a picture book. All toddlers should grow up reading this or hearing their parents read it aloud to them. - Daily Telegraph A joyful read about an outsider who finds acceptance on his own terms.... there's also a simple moral about tolerance and daring to be different. - Junior