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Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Novelists, Canadian (English) 20th century Biography
ISBN : OCLC:471747812
Author : Robert Brassel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781725267466
This is the story of a young boy who wants to be a professional dancer. Surmounting the inevitable obstacles of parental rejection and the advice of guidance counselors, with stakes set against one starting training as late as seventeen, he ventures to New York City in hopes of dancing in West Side Story. Instead, he discovers his true love is Classical Ballet, not Broadway. In his first year with the Joffrey Ballet, he is drafted into the US Army. Changing from dance tights to M-16 rifles, he encounters one of the more remarkable periods of his young life. Miraculously avoiding assignment in Vietnam, he returns to the ballet career that then takes him to twenty-five countries on five continents. Along the way he meets and marries his favorite ballerina, Linda DeBona, and together, they dance the great classical repertoire on the world’s stages, meeting and working with many of the great names in music and dance. Upon becoming a father and changing careers, he sees new opportunities. In his work as an insurance broker, he is able to give back to his former profession in the form of creating a disability insurance product for dancers: a first for the insurance industry and for the professional dance world. A new stage has been set, this time with the audience across the table. Finally, he finds his way back to dance by developing the health club industry’s first adult ballet class. He is back in his element reminding one and all that he is first and Always a Dancer.
Author : Ninette de Valois
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330271971
Excerpt from Come Dance With Me: A Memoir 1898-1956; Illustrated Come Dance With Me: A Memoir 1898-1956; Illustrated was written by Ninette de Valois. This is a 288 page book, containing 82978 words and 67 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robin Edward Poulton
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 172931600X
This is a book of dancing around the world written for all children and their grandparents, filled with wit and humor, interspersing dances with personal stories, jokes and home-spun lessons from life - enlivened with word pictures of St Andrews, of beautiful Scotland, of kilts and haggis. Robin Poulton celebrates the worldwide friendship of dancers, offering a philosophy of life that promotes "the greatest happiness to the greatest number" through peace and love and dancing. Read and enjoy!
Author : Annie Meachem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520789173
It's Easier to Dance is the remarkable memoir from author Annie Harris, a woman born in the late 1940s with cerebral palsy. This extraordinary book is the first of its kind to provide a chronological view of the historical development of the civil rights movement through three different lenses: those of a woman, a minority, and someone living with a developmental disability.This insightful and unflinching account of Harris's life over the past sixty years reveals not only her heartache and pain but also her hope and triumph.Chapters such as "Ticket to Freedom," "A Change in Identity," and "My Life's Rhythm" reveal a complex woman who has lived a life in defiance of ongoing social stereotypes and barriers. Told in a warm, candid, conversational style, Harris offers a compelling window into a world rarely seen as she uncompromisingly tackles issues of equity, education, sex, relationships, kindness, belief in the supernatural, and the power of love.In the vein of inspirational works by Helen Keller, Maya Angelou, and Oprah Winfrey, Harris's absorbing story encourages us all to look past our physical trappings, speak in our own voice, and believe those who speak for themselves.
Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0517124823
Author : Dennis J. Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 099695063X
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is a memoir in short visual poems, written by poet/investigative journalist Dennis J Bernstein, typographic visualizations by designer/author Warren Lehrer. As with his journalism, Bernstein's poems reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. Divided into eight chapters, it spans a lifetime, lifetimes: growing up confused by dyslexia and a parent's alcoholism; graced by pogo sticks, boxing lessons and a mother's compassion; becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermaths, to prison, street life, poverty, love and loss, to open heart surgery, caring for aging parents and visitations from them after they're gone. Lehrer's typographic compositions give form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of the poems. Together, the writing and visuals create a new whole that engages the reader to become an active participant in the navigation, discovery, and experience of each poem.
Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367105
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316248709
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind . . . She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
Author : Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Blind
ISBN : WISC:89093037760
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Blind
ISBN : PURD:32754081659371
Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316075978
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.
Author : Sherrie A. Inness,Diana Royer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1587291150
Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307911797
From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in breadth, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. “Sentience and sunderance,” Ehrlich writes. “How we know what we know, who teaches us, how easy it is to lose it all.” As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, and an uninhabited Alaskan island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0393057372
A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.