Author : Patricia Keeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177133276X
One Man Dancing
Patricia Keeney
One Man Dancing
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One Man Dancing
Patricia Keeney
Author : Patricia Keeney
Publisher : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1771332735
One Man Dancing by Patricia Keeney Pdf
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. ONE MAN DANCING is based on the true story of a young Ugandan actor-dancer growing into artistic maturity during the murderous regime of dictator Idi Amin. It follows Charles from his youth in Uganda's colonial villages, and through his work with artistic guru Robert Serumaga, which takes him on an eye-opening whirlwind international tour. Bounced from Africa to Europe to Canada and back again, Charles experiences bizarre and dangerous encounters with assassination, natural disaster, Idi Amin, and even the CIA. Based on the extraordinary life of a Ugandan actor, ONE MAN DANCING is a political mystery, a story of risk and freedom, a harrowing tale of theatre and personal belief.
Single Man Dancing Alone
Nick Kelly
Author : Nick Kelly
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798758475331
Single Man Dancing Alone by Nick Kelly Pdf
James O'Bryan arrives in Qatar in 1977 to take up his post as an English teacher. His intention is to stay for two years and then continue his travels. However, when he meets the Al Bahr family he becomes drawn into the Qatari way of life, developing a kinship with the eldest son, Fahd, who is an artist. Over the years, as James makes friends with both expats and Qataris, he finds himself torn between two different cultures, enjoying fun in the sun as well as the traditions and kindness of the Qatari family. In 'The House of Fortune, ' the first in the two-book series, the Al Bahr's humble beginnings in the pearl-diving days of the 1920s change over the next fifty years. In 'Single Man Dancing Alone' the development in Qatar during the next fifty years is so great that by the time the tiny country is awarded the World Cup their wealth is enormous. Through James and the family we witness the momentous events that altered the course of Qatar's history and experience at first hand the choices that a man must make between East and West
One Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis
Craig T. Pynn
Author : Craig T. Pynn
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781617051234
One Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis by Craig T. Pynn Pdf
Awarded a 2012 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award in the Consumer Health Category One Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis provides a comprehensive patient's eye view of the clinical, emotional, relational and spiritual experience of prostate cancer from the time of first symptoms to diagnosis to treatment and to living as survivor with an advanced cancer that can return at any time. The book discusses everything that results from a diagnosis of prostate cancer, from relationships to sex to social networking to finding support groups. And it explores feelings - why some men feel free to talk openly while others remain silent and what that silence is about. It teaches strategies for coping with the often-inappropriate responses when the individual tells relatives, friends and acquaintances that he has prostate cancer. One Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis shows: How to become an informed advocate for your own particular clinical situation by knowing where - and where not to seek information online How to make informed judgments about a treatments validity Why men with prostate cancer tend to deal with their illness quite differently than women who have breast cancer - and what that implies for a person's well-being
Dancing Man
Bob Avian
Author : Bob Avian
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496826985
Dancing Man by Bob Avian Pdf
Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett while helping to choreograph the original productions of Company and Follies. During this time, Avian won a Tony Award as the cochoreographer of A Chorus Line and produced the spectacular Tony Award–winning Dreamgirls. For a triumphant third act, Avian choreographed Julie Andrews’s return to the New York stage, devised all of the musical staging for Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard, and directed A Chorus Line on Broadway. He worked with the biggest names on Broadway, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, and Glenn Close. Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider’s view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.
Why is this Country Dancing?
John Krich
Author : John Krich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029188250
Why is this Country Dancing? by John Krich Pdf
Music echoes on every page of this superb portrait of South America's most diverse country, by the author of El Beisbol and Music in Every Room. This remarkable book is both a vivid look at a vast land, where the cult of pleasure lives side by side with grinding poverty, and the first in-depth study of the music and musicians of the most musical country on Earth.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110912
The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf
Title story plus three others featuring the peerless sleuth and his faithful sidekick: "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans."
One Man, Two Cultures, Two Gods
Edward Gãmes
Author : Edward Gãmes
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644265109
One Man, Two Cultures, Two Gods by Edward Gãmes Pdf
One Man, Two Cultures, Two Gods By: Edward Gãmes Edward Gãmes has traveled most of the USA and Europe, had a Catholic education, is a Navy Vietnam veteran and was part of the Apollo 11 recovery team. He also graduated from University of Texas El Paso. Gãmes has 28 years experience in the social service field and worked some interesting part-time jobs, from a concierge to a truck driver. He is bi-lingual, bi-cultural, and speaks 40% French and 40% Italian. Gãmes is also working on a children’s book about a boy looking at the USA from the outside and thinking that he could be the President.
Bad Axe County
John Galligan
Author : John Galligan
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982110710
Bad Axe County by John Galligan Pdf
Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago—all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community. Fifteen years ago, Heidi White’s parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth—if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She’s also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected but the other half will do anything to keep her out of law enforcement. And as a deadly ice storm makes it way to Bad Axe, tensions rise and long-buried secrets climb to the surface. As freezing rain washes out roads and rivers flood their banks, Heidi finds herself on the trail of a missing teenaged girl. Clues lead her down twisted paths to backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy farms, and the local salvage yard—where the body of a different teenage girl has been carefully hidden for a decade. As the storm rages on, Heidi realizes that someone is planting clues for her to find, leading her to some unpleasant truths that point to the local baseball team and a legendary game her husband pitched years ago. With a murder to solve, a missing girl to save, and a monster to bring to justice, Heidi is on the cusp of shaking her community to its core—and finding out what really happened the night her parents died. With “striking prose, engaging characters, and a searing story of crimes rooted in the heartland,” Bad Axe County is a “darkly irresistible thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that you won’t be able to put down.
Embodied Communities
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Author : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458683
Embodied Communities by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf
Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance’s role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from the skillful manipulation of both physical and verbal forms of politeness. This account of dance’s significance in performance and in everyday life draws on extensive research, including dance training in Java, and builds on how practitioners interpret and explain the repertoire. The Javanese case is contextualized in relation to social values, religion, philosophy, and commoditization arising from tourism. It also raises fundamental questions about the theorization of culture, society and the body during a period of radical change.
Dancing Mestizo Modernisms
Jose Luis Reynoso
Author : Jose Luis Reynoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197622551
Dancing Mestizo Modernisms by Jose Luis Reynoso Pdf
This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, and theories of race, dance, and performance studies, author Jose Reynoso examines how dance and other forms of embodiment participated in Mexico's formation after the Mexican War of Independence (1821-1876), the Porfirian dictatorship (1876-1911), and postrevolutionary Mexico (1919-1940). In so doing, the book analyzes how underlying colonial logics continued to influence relationships amongst dancers, other artists, government officials, critics, and audiences of different backgrounds as they refashioned their racial, social, cultural, and national identities. The book proposes and develops two main concepts that explore these mutually formative interactions among such diverse people: embodied mestizo modernisms and transnational nationalisms. 'Embodied mestizo modernisms' refers to combinations of indigenous, folkloric, ballet, and modern dance practices in works choreographed by national and international dancers with different racial and social backgrounds. The book contends that these mestizo modernist dance practices challenged assumptions about racial neutrality with which whiteness historically established its ostensible supremacy in constructing Mexico's 'transnational nationalisms'. This argument holds that notions of the nation-state and national identities are not produced exclusively by a nation's natives but also by historical transnational forces and (dancing) bodies whose influences shape local politics, economic interests, and artistic practices.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Spencer Baynes
Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015080346938
The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Thomas Spencer Baynes Pdf
Dancing Revelations
Thomas DeFrantz
Author : Thomas DeFrantz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195154193
Dancing Revelations by Thomas DeFrantz Pdf
Chronicles the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre's journey from small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African-American culture. This book charts the troupe's rise to national and international renown, and contextualizes its progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.
Dancing with the Tiger
Lili Wright
Author : Lili Wright
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698197015
Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright Pdf
Taut, acidly witty, menacingly erotic, and often absolutely terrifying: this is a literary thriller of propulsive force that introduces a powerful storyteller. *An Edgar Finalist for Best First Novel *Semifinalist for the 2017 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award It begins when a meth-addicted grave robber unearths the death mask of Montezuma, setting off a violent struggle for its possession. There is the drug lord who employs him, who would kill for that mask. There is the expat American collector, sinister and possibly mad. There is the greatly respected curator, who for a fee will provide provenances for his country’s looted artifacts, and his long-suffering housekeeper, a deeply religious lesbian in a culture of machismo, who despises her patron. And there is the looter himself, who has stolen the mask and is now running for his life. Above all, there is Anna Ramsey, an American with a history of bad choices, who has hidden behind a mask all her adult life. A deeply wounded woman, Anna knows that masks protect and conceal. Anna is a heroine for our times, as she searches for the courage to remove her mask and show her true face.
A Theater of Diplomacy
Ellen R. Welch
Author : Ellen R. Welch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293869
A Theater of Diplomacy by Ellen R. Welch Pdf
The seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to an actor became commonplace as the practice of diplomacy took hold in early modern Europe. More than an abstract metaphor, it reflected the rich culture of spectacular entertainment that was a backdrop to emissaries' day-to-day lives. Royal courts routinely honored visiting diplomats or celebrated treaty negotiations by staging grandiose performances incorporating dance, music, theater, poetry, and pageantry. These entertainments—allegorical ballets, masquerade balls, chivalric tournaments, operas, and comedies—often addressed pertinent themes such as war, peace, and international unity in their subject matter. In both practice and content, the extravagant exhibitions were fully intertwined with the culture of diplomacy. But exactly what kind of diplomatic work did these spectacles perform? Ellen R. Welch contends that the theatrical and performing arts had a profound influence on the development of modern diplomatic practices in early modern Europe. Using France as a case study, Welch explores the interconnected histories of international relations and the theatrical and performing arts. Her book argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in this period. Through its examination of the early modern precursors to today's cultural diplomacy initiatives, her book investigates the various ways in which performance structures international politics still.