Dancer S Debt

Author : John Lutz
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612321905

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Dancer's Debt by John Lutz Pdf

Helen Crane, a beauty "men build dreams around," hires private eye Alo Nudger to find out what's troubling her lover Jake Dancer. Middle-aging, old-shoe Nudger tails Dancer and manages to save him from a couple of strong-arm men. Dancer, handsome, feckless, an alcoholic and compulsive gambler is vague about the money he owes, and Nudger learns that Helen, working for an "escort service," plans to move "up" to prostitution to help pay Dancer's debts. Then Dancer vanishes, Nudger's lover Claudia is abducted, and the story ends with the uncovering of a grisly, sadistic snuff-film operation. "Lutz's plotting here has a stark, unusual, genuinely disturbing curve to it—making this another Nudgeresque blend of strong action, lean atmosphere, and downbeat personality." —Kirkus "...[Lutz] deserves high marks for another intriguing glimpse into the unusual world of Alo Nudger, a uniquely warm and thoroughly disheveled detective." —Booklist

Author : Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0809305186

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans Pdf

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199958214

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Dancers as Diplomats by Clare Croft Pdf

Clare Croft chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy, telling the story of how tours sponsored by the US State Department shaped and sometimes re-imagined ideas of America in unexpected, often sensational circumstances.

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191634383

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The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World by Fiona Macintosh Pdf

When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas.

Author : Glenn L. Starks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440881091

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100 Black Women Who Shaped America by Glenn L. Starks Pdf

This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey are well known to many Americans. Yet throughout American history, many lesser-known Black women like them have made invaluable contributions to sports, science, the arts, medicine, politics, and civil rights. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who published the first newspaper written for and by African American women, championed the cause of women's suffrage. Matilda Sissieretta Jones, whose father was an enslaved person, toured Europe and performed at the White House in front of four different presidents as one of the great sopranos of her generation. Augusta Savage, overcoming racism and sexism, became one of the most celebrated sculptors in history. This book serves as an important reminder that the story of America cannot be told without the Black women who, with strength and determination, have always pushed America forward even when others held them back.

Author : Servando Z. Hinojosa
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826335234

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In this Body by Servando Z. Hinojosa Pdf

This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

Author : Lynn Matluck Brooks
Publisher : Edition Reichenberger
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Christian dance
ISBN : 3923593651

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The Dances of the Processions of Seville in Spain's Golden Age by Lynn Matluck Brooks Pdf

Author : John F. Stagl
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781614489740

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Stop the Rain Dance by John F. Stagl Pdf

It’s easy to become so involved in life’s drama that we lose sight of what’s really important to us. This is your chance to take a step back and renegotiate your position. Dr. John Stagl offers you another way to look at your life situation, outlines proven methods to help you resolve some of the challenges you face, and then helps you put it all together in an easy-to-understand, workable fashion for a consistently more joyful experience. People cannot just think their way to riches or happiness. It requires the right action for the right reasons. They need new and different solutions to their old chronic problems that are practical, easy to understand, and simple to implement. Discover the secret—more powerful than the Law of Attraction—to solve longstanding challenges in key areas of life: health, relationships, and finances.

Author : Mór Jókai
Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft.
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789633817858

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Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai Pdf

At that time I was but ten years old, my brother Lorand sixteen; our dear mother was still young, and father, I well remember, no more than thirty-six. Our grandmother, on my father's side, was also of our party, and at that time was some sixty years of age; she had lovely thick hair, of the pure whiteness of snow. In my childhood I had often thought how dearly the angels must love those who keep their hair so beautiful and white; and used to have the childish belief that one's hair grows white from abundance of joy. It is true, we never had any sorrow; it seemed as if our whole family had contracted some secret bond of unity, whereby each member thereof bound himself to cause as much joy and as little sorrow as possible to the others.

Author : Sharyn R. Udall
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299288037

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Dance and American Art by Sharyn R. Udall Pdf

From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America’s perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous—Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham—have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists’ portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.

Author : David Lubin
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815736752

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Dance of the Trillions by David Lubin Pdf

In Dance of the Trillions, David Lubin tells the story of what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones; what makes it flow out again; and how developing countries have sought protection against the volatility of international capital flows. The book traces an arc from the 1970s, when developing countries first gained access to international financial markets, to the present day. Underlying this story is a discussion of how the relationship between developing countries and global finance appears to be moving from one governed by the “Washington Consensus” to one more likely to be shaped by Beijing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131217770

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The New-York Mirror by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rajindra K. Puri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004454200

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Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rainforest by Rajindra K. Puri Pdf

For two years Rajindra Puri lived and hunted with the Penan Benalui people in the rainforest of eastern Borneo in Indonesia. Here he reports on Penan hunting techniques, the knowledge required to be a successful hunter, and the significance of hunting for Penan communities. A hunt offers the opportunity for younger Penan to learn crucial survival skills, knowledge of the environment, local geography, genealogy, history, and beliefs and values. Songs and stories recount hunting adventures and legends, while ceremonial dances demonstrate the coordination and agility required of the expert hunter. The author makes a case for using active participant-observation, in conjunction with standard ethnobiological research methods, for documenting non-verbal knowledge. Included here are 21 months of hunting records and comprehensive appendices on game species and ethnobiological data. This work will be useful to anthropologists, conservation biologists, and those interested in Indonesian ethnobiology.

Author : Rishona Zimring
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1409455769

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Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain by Rishona Zimring Pdf

Arguing that social dance haunted the interwar imagination, Zimring reveals the powerful figurative importance of music and dance, both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain's entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analysing paintings, films, memoirs, ballet, documentary texts and writings by Modernist authors, Zimring illuminates the ubiquitous presence of social dance in the British imagination during a time of cultural transition and recuperation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Labor
ISBN : WISC:89018117382

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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics by Anonim Pdf