Dancing With The Impossible

Author : Fiona Buckland
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819570543

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Impossible Dance by Fiona Buckland Pdf

"Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. Focusing on gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City, this is the first book to bring together vital issues such as dance culture, queer community, sex culture, HIV identity and politics. Based on four years of field work, the book takes readers on a journey from the streets of New York City into the dance clubs and onto the dance floor. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing. Fiona Buckland argues that such dancing embodies and rehearses a powerful political imagination, laying claim to the space and to one's body as queer."--Publishers Weekly

Author : Susan Homar,nibia pastrana santiago
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780472056545

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Inhabiting the Impossible by Susan Homar,nibia pastrana santiago Pdf

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

Author : David F. Nixon
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664299382

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Dancing with the Impossible by David F. Nixon Pdf

If you are willing to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless, you just might hear God say, “You can do something about that!” David F. Nixon, a church leader and passionate Gospel preacher for over four decades, urges the readers of this book to start doing instead of dreaming. He emphasizes that bystanders watch change happen; participants make it happen. Fortunately, for believers, God specializes in the impossible—and we get to be on His team. Find out how faith, obedience, and a willingness to act can help you: Assist those who are less fortunate; Change the world with seemingly small acts of kindness; Be a better parent to your children; Appreciate the value and significance of mission work. Throughout the book, the author shares his own experience as a missionary, explaining how he’s lived life to the fullest by putting on his dance shoes—the Gospel of peace--and clothing himself with his Jesus jersey— compassion—and doing the next right thing.

Author : Antoinette Benevento,Edwin Dobb
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781466839786

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Dancing Through Life by Antoinette Benevento,Edwin Dobb Pdf

A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing. Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life. Some of the tenets Antoinette Benevento lives, dances, and teaches by: -Persistence is a form of beauty -Give yourself permission to begin again--and again and again -If you're not willing to risk falling, you'll never learn to walk (or dance) -Desire is the energy that moves us forward in dance and in life -To dance well and to live fully, body and soul need to work together Building on the ballroom dancing craze that has swept the country, including the popularity of "Dancing with the Stars", this illuminating and highly readable book shows that what you learn on the dance floor can help you dance through life. ANTOINETTE BENEVENTO is co-owner of and National Training Director for the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and a former national ballroom dancing champion. EDWIN DOBB is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and has written for numerous other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Discover.

Author : Dr Margaret E Walker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409449508

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective by Dr Margaret E Walker Pdf

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:741451816

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Impossible Dance by Anonim Pdf

An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City.

Author : Jennifer Thorp
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781835533383

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The Gentleman Dancing-Master by Jennifer Thorp Pdf

The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne considers the life and times of the dancer known as Mr Isaac, performer, teacher and creator of prestigious dances for performance at the royal court. Includes facsimiles and discussion of his surviving dances and their context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858045140989

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To-day by Anonim Pdf

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:39015041041230

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The Art of the Impossible by Václav Havel Pdf

There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision. This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it. He describes how his country and the other postcommunist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. He invokes the duty of every person alive to prevent hatred and fear from derailing history ever again. He acknowledges "the advantage it is for doing a good job as president to know that I do not belong in the position and that I can at any moment, and justifiably, be removed from it." And he reminds us that--contrary to all appearances--common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience arenot alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.

Author : Louise Lintvelt
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781783017713

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Diary of a Dancing Drama Queen by Louise Lintvelt Pdf

Harriet Hughes is not a girl who likes pink or dancing, in fact she hates them both. Harriet is devastated when she has to attend a dance class, with the most popular girl in school and she is constantly humiliated in front of her secret crush Oliver. Will Harriet manage to make it through dance class? Will Oliver notice her and will her parents ever stop embarrassing her?Follow Harriet's funny middle grade adventures in this beginner chapter book which includes illustrations.

Author : Jenny McLachlan
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250080134

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Flirty Dancing by Jenny McLachlan Pdf

Debut author Jenny McLachlan weaves a warm and hilarious story of friendship and dance starring the refreshing and plucky Bea Hogg in Flirty Dancing, the first book in the Ladybirds series! Bea Hogg is shy, but she has a fiery core that she doesn't let many see. When the national dance competition Starwarscomes to her school looking for talent, she wants to sign up. It's just her luck that her best friend Kat ditches her and agrees to enter with school super-witch Pearl Harris (and Bea's former best friend). Bea is determined to fight back! But when the school hottie, Ollie Matthews, who also happens to be Pearl's boyfriend, decides to enter the competition with Bea to jive dance, she will have more than a fight on her hands.

Author : Kathy Kingston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119017882

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A Higher Bid by Kathy Kingston Pdf

Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction advice A Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fundraiser, speaker, and professional auctioneer Kathy Kingston shares her proprietary and proven approaches to audience development, board empowerment, leadership succession, guest cultivation and engagement, and donor development. You'll learn how live auctions, special appeals, innovative icebreakers, silent auctions, and new technologies can help increase revenue, and how to execute these events in a way that translates to a stronger donor base for long-term giving. Kingston describes how to match the guest list and catalog for better results, and reveals the strategies professional auctioneers use to curate the right auction items and discover the right people to generate optimum revenue and engage donors. This book offers a fresh approach to fundraising, showing you how charity benefit auctions can be made a centerpiece of fundraising special events to drive both short- and long-term fundraising goals while providing a fun and inspiring opportunity to generate awareness and keep supporters excited about the mission. Using Kingston's proven framework, you'll learn effective ways to: Strategically increase high-profit revenue streams Increase your organization's donor base Empower the board toward efficiency and productivity Engage supporters more deeply and keep them invested Donors are the lifeblood of any nonprofit organization, and sustainable revenue depends upon their high engagement and willingness to give. Well-executed benefit and charity auctions have proven to be effective fundraisers for nonprofits, associations, and schools of all types, and A Higher Bid is the expert guide to optimizing these special events for maximum impact.

Author : Eliza Gaynor Minden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781416595717

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The Ballet Companion by Eliza Gaynor Minden Pdf

A New Classic for Today's Dancer The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including: Practical advice for getting started, such as selecting a school, making the most of class, and studio etiquette Explanations of ballet fundamentals and major training systems An illustrated guide through ballet class -- warm-up, barre, and center floor Guidelines for safe, healthy dancing through a sensible diet, injury prevention, and cross-training with yoga and Pilates Descriptions of must-see ballets and glossaries of dance, music, and theater terms Along the way you'll find technique secrets from stars of American Ballet Theatre, lavishly illustrated sidebars on ballet history, and tips on everything from styling a ballet bun to stage makeup to performing the perfect pirouette. Whether a budding ballerina, serious student, or adult returning to ballet, dancers will find a lively mix of ballet's time-honored traditions and essential new information.

Author : Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783796549731

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Tanz und Musik by Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro Pdf

Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise? Und umgekehrt: Welche Wirkung hat die musikalische Interpretation auf die Ausführung einer Choreografie? Wie stehen tänzerische und melodische Phrasierung zueinander? Derlei Fragen zum Verhältnis von Tanz und Musik ergeben sich sowohl bei der praktischen Ausführung als auch bei der Erforschung historischer ‹Tanzmusik›. Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Zugänge, mit denen dieser interdisziplinäre Band ‹Tanzmusik› vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik untersucht, kontextualisiert und im Sinne historischer Musikpraxis erschließt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Klang und Bewegung in verschiedenen historischen Repertoires, Gattungen und Formen.

Author : Rose Viña
Publisher : She Made History
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807514543

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Alicia Alonso Dances on by Rose Viña Pdf

Alicia Alonso wouldn't let her vision impairment keep her from dancing.