The Body In The Ballroom

Author : Caroline Joan S. Picart
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482414

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From Ballroom to DanceSport by Caroline Joan S. Picart Pdf

Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest.

Author : Jonathan S. Marion
Publisher : Berg
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857851468

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Ballroom by Jonathan S. Marion Pdf

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. For students of anthropology, dance, cultural and performance studies, Ballroom provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.

Author : Ella Barrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101543931

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Quickstep to Murder by Ella Barrick Pdf

What if your dance partner, business partner, and fiancé was stepping out with another woman? That's exactly what happens to Stacy Graysin, who shares ownership of a ballroom dance studio with the man who broke her heart, Rafe Acosta. But when Stacy discovers Rafe's dead body in the studio one dark night, the police suspect her of killing him. To clear her name and save her studio, Stacey teams up with Rafe's estranged cousin from Argentina, Tav, to find the real killer. And if Stacy doesn't watch her step, the killer may make this dance her last.

Author : Steven J. Osterlind
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400910713

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Constructing Test Items by Steven J. Osterlind Pdf

Author : Diane Jarmolow,Move Like a Champion,Kasia Kozak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615455476

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Move Like a Champion by Diane Jarmolow,Move Like a Champion,Kasia Kozak Pdf

Extraordinary, yet simple, training that provides the information ballroom dance teachers and students have been searching for. It is accessible to all ballroom dancers, using simple exercises with fun names.

Author : Ricky Tucker
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807003497

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And the Category Is... by Ricky Tucker Pdf

An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture. What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations. Ricky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. With each chapter framed as a “category” (Vogue, Realness, Body, et al.), And the Category Is . . . offers an impressionistic point of entry into this subculture, its deeply integrated history, and how it’s been appropriated for mainstream audiences. Each category features an exclusive interview with fierce LGBTQ/POC Ballroom members—Lee Soulja, Benjamin Ninja, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and more—whose lives, work, and activism drive home that very category. At the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, thanks to TV shows like FX’s Pose, Tucker’s compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. Welcome to the norm-defying realness of Ballroom.

Author : R. J. Koreto
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683315780

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The Body in the Ballroom by R. J. Koreto Pdf

President Teddy Roosevelt’s daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin’s bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she’d never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents itself when Alice is invited to a lavish ball. The high-society guests are in high spirits as they imbibe the finest wines. But one man, detested by nearly all the partygoers, quaffs a decidedly deadlier cocktail. An African-American mechanic, who also happens to be a good friend of former Rough Rider-turned-Secret Service Agent Joseph St. Clair, is suspected of the murder-by-poison, but Alice is sure he’s innocent and is back on the scene to clear his name. From downtown betting parlors to uptown mansions, Alice and Agent St. Clair uncover forbidden romances and a financial deal that just might change the world. But neither Alice nor her would-be protector may survive the case at hand in The Body in the Ballroom, R. J. Koreto's gripping second Alice Roosevelt mystery.

Author : Samuel Cruz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739176764

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Christianity and Culture in the City by Samuel Cruz Pdf

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study. This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era.

Author : L. A. Nisula
Publisher : Lisa Anne Nisula
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Body in the Box Room by L. A. Nisula Pdf

When Cassie Pengear agreed to spend the evening with her cousin Milly, and Milly’s latest gentleman caller and his mother, it was with the promise that Milly and her gentleman would not trouble her again unless there was an impending marriage. She did not expect Milly to stumble over a body in her prospective mother-in-law’s box room, and she certainly did not expect Inspector Wainwright to draw the case. Now Milly is convinced they’re all suspects and Cassie is the only one who can figure out who murdered the body in the box room. In a Victorian England that almost existed, a steampunk London where tinkerers and clockwork devices exist alongside hansom cabs and corsets, murder is still solved by traditional observation and intuition. This is the London where American typist Cassandra Pengear finds herself stumbling over corpses and helping Scotland Yard detectives solve murders (although they inexplicably prefer to call it interfering). Follow her adventures in the Cassie Pengear Mystery series, beginning with The Killing at the Carnival.

Author : Elizabeth Aldrich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0810109131

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From the Ballroom to Hell by Elizabeth Aldrich Pdf

During the 1800s, dance and etiquette manuals provided ordinary men and women with the keys to becoming gentlemen and ladies--and thus advancing in society. Why dance? To the insecure and status-oriented upper middle class, the ballroom embodied the perfect setting in which to demonstrate one's fitness for membership in genteel society. From the Ballroom to Hell collects over 100 little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from the nineteenth century. Included are instructions for performing various dances, as well as musical scores, costume patterns, and the proper way to hold one's posture, fork, gloves, and fan. While of particular interest to dancers, dance historians, and choreographers, anyone fascinated by the ways and mores of the period will find From the Ballroom to Hell an endearing and informative glimpse of America's past.

Author : Nicole Brenez
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839987816

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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular: by Nicole Brenez Pdf

Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.

Author : Cal Pozo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000064171494

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Let's Dance by Cal Pozo Pdf

Cal Pozo presents an easy-to-follow, fun to watch book and DVD combination that gives the reader multiple angles and methods from which to learn. Weddings and parties will have you moving and grooving, turning and twirling, and hopping and bobbing with the best.

Author : Victor Silvester
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446545232

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Theory and Technique of Ballroom Dancing by Victor Silvester Pdf

Originally published in 1932, this is a wonderfully detailed guide to ballroom dancing by the then reigning world champion dancer. The book covers everything that is essential in connection with ballroom dancing, from a detailed description of the standardised figures down to the finer points which proclaim the expert dancer. It is a book that will make its appeal both to the novice and to the experienced or professional performer. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include A Complete Syllabus for a Ballroom Examination General Knowledge Questions and Answers The Slow Foxtrot The Waltz The Quick Step The Tango Charts Giving a Complete Description of Every Standing Figure

Author : Alex Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780878301539

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Ballroom Dancing by Alex Moore Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jesse P. Pollack
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439676172

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Death on the Devil's Teeth by Jesse P. Pollack Pdf

Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women.