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Through the Eyes of a Dancer

Author : Wendy Perron
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-05
ISBN 10 : 9780819574091
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (574 downloads)

Download Through the Eyes of a Dancer in PDF Full Online Free by Wendy Perron and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House. In opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, brief memoirs, blog posts, and contemplations on the choreographic process, she gives readers an up-close, personalized look at dancing as an art form. Dancers, choreographers, teachers, college dance students—and anyone interested in the intersection between dance and journalism—will find Perron’s probing and insightful writings inspiring. Through the Eyes of a Dancer is a nuanced microcosm of dance’s recent globalization and modernization that also provides an opportunity for new dancers to look back on the traditions and styles that preceded their own.

Dancing with Tears in My Eyes

Author : Gerald Stern
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2014-11
ISBN 10 : 9780985932572
Pages : 66 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (932 downloads)

Download Dancing with Tears in My Eyes in PDF Full Online Free by Gerald Stern and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades one of our most honored and beloved poets, Gerald Stern is also, it turns out, a prolific doodler. Sometimes charming, sometimes scathing, sometimes both, the odd little figures and scenes here are reproduced from drawings on napkins, hotel stationary, and the margins of what seem to be lecture handouts. These are remarkable expressions of a quirky world and a clear vision. Long recognized as one of the most original poets in America, Stern is known for his tragi-comic, irascible vision that has been vividly rendered in hundreds of poems. All along, he has also been drafting these whimsical sketches. The Thurber-esque drawings represented here are daft, graphic expressions of Stern’s fearless and shameless sense of self. In addition to expressing a forgiving and cavalier attitude toward aging, these saucy drawings, until now a well-kept secret of Stern’s creative life, capture something essential about his character. By turns profane and playfully romantic, they are another expression of the cutting wit and inimitable charm of Gerald Stern.

Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

Author : Lynn Matluck Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
ISBN 10 : 9781134906451
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (96 downloads)

Download Preserving Dance Across Time and Space in PDF Full Online Free by Lynn Matluck Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

Dancing Through It

Author : Jenifer Ringer
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2014-02-20
ISBN 10 : 9780698151505
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (151 downloads)

Download Dancing Through It in PDF Full Online Free by Jenifer Ringer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually upbeat account of life on the stage, Dancing Through It is also a coming-of-age story and an inspiring memoir of faith and of triumph over the body issues that torment all too many women and men.

The Daughters

Author : Elizabeth Caroline Grey
Publisher :
Release Date : 1884
ISBN 10 : OXFORD:590441271
Pages : 381 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Paper Canoe

Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
ISBN 10 : 9781134818204
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (818 downloads)

Download The Paper Canoe in PDF Full Online Free by Eugenio Barba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Three Dogs and a Dancer

Author : Stephen Ward
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-10-11
ISBN 10 : 9781326044756
Pages : 438 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (44 downloads)

Download Three Dogs and a Dancer in PDF Full Online Free by Stephen Ward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and autobiographical account of a Dancer's journey from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to his travels in Europe. Accepted at the age of sixteen by the Royal Ballet School (London) he completed a three year dance course culminating in a performance at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden). His professional Career took him to Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and back to London again. Stephen founded his own 'Focus on Dance' company, a performing and educational enterprise based in Bournemouth, England, touring the south and south-west of England. Then he took his dance to the streets of Europe. He has subsequently performed to street audiences in the major cities and towns of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Holland, France and Italy. In 1989 he moved to Fiano, in northern Tuscany. Stephen Ward died in 2013. This book is his lasting testament. A tender, moving portrait and a tribute to dance, dogs, friends, nature - and to life itself!

Dances with Darwin, 1875–1910

Author : Rae Beth Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
ISBN 10 : 9781351946421
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (946 downloads)

Download Dances with Darwin, 1875–1910 in PDF Full Online Free by Rae Beth Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French café-concert aesthetic. Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into a groundbreaking exploration of the cultural implications of gesture in dance performances at late-nineteenth-century Parisian café-concerts and music halls. While art historians have studied the ties between primitivism and modernism, their convergence in fin-de-siècle popular entertainment has been largely overlooked. Gordon argues that while the impact of Darwinism was unprecedented in science, it was no less present in popular culture through the popular press and popular entertainment, where it constituted a kind of "evolutionist aesthetic" on display in the café-concert, circus, and music-hall as well as in the spectator's reception of the representations on the stage. Modernity in these sites, Gordon contends, was composed by the convergence of contemporary medical theory with representations of the primitive, staged in entertainments that ranged from the can-can, Missing Links, and epileptic singers to the Cake-Walk. Her anthropology of gesture uncovers in these dislocations of the human form an aesthetic of disorder a half century before the eruptions of Dada and Surrealism.

Dancing with Fire

Author : Susan Kearney
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Release Date : 2013-02-28
ISBN 10 : 9781611942743
Pages : 259 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (942 downloads)

Download Dancing with Fire in PDF Full Online Free by Susan Kearney and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fast-paced story line never slows down... Kearney turns up the Florida summer heat with this exhilarating, fiery tale." Harriet Klausner, The Mystery Gazette In a battle against a ruthless enemy, all they have is each other. Kaylin Danner gave up everything when her mother died. Her dancing career. Her life. Her future. With her dance studio, she helps pay the bills and raise her younger sisters. When an explosion kills her father, Kaylin is suspicious of foul play. Suddenly, strangers begin asking about her father's business secrets, their home is invaded, and the family attacked. And now Kaylin has her hands full holding the family together. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Sawyer Scott was her dad's partner. He wants to carry on their research, research which could change the world, literally. But Kaylin fears continuing her father's work increases the danger to her family. As they both grieve, Sawyer shows Kaylin how dependable, thoughtful, and protective he really is. Resisting the brilliant and sexy scientist is difficult. And although Kaylin tells herself she can face the hard times alone, she slowly lets down her guard. Yet even as she falls into a working partnership with Sawyer, Kaylin questions her own judgment. Is trusting Sawyer a good decision? Will finding the missing formula lead them to her father's killer? Can she stop dancing with fire long enough to save her family and herself? Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time and has sold books to the industry's top publishing houses - Grand Central, Tor, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Berkley, Leisure, Red Sage, and Kensington. As an award winning author, Kearney earned a Business Degree from the University of Michigan. Kearney's knowledge and experience span the romance genre, and her fifty plus books include contemporary, romantic suspense, historical, futuristic, science fiction, and paranormal novels. She resides in a suburb of Tampa - with her husband, kids, and Boston terrier. Currently, she's plotting her way through her 54th work of fiction. Visit Susan at www.SusanKearney.com.

Perveril of the Peak

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
Release Date : 1868
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:HWP6PF
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Gray Wolf Throne

Author : Cinda Williams Chima
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9781423163183
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (163 downloads)

Download The Gray Wolf Throne in PDF Full Online Free by Cinda Williams Chima and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of fierce loyalty, unbearable sacrifice, and the heartless hand of fate. Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, mysterious girl he knew as Rebecca is none other than Raisa ana'Marianna, heir to the Queendom of the Fells. Han is hurt and betrayed. He knows he has no future with a blueblood. And, as far as he's concerned, the princess's family as good as killed his own mother and sister. But if Han is to fulfill his end of an old bargain, he must do everything in his power to see Raisa crowned queen. Meanwhile, some people will stop at nothing to prevent Raisa from ascending. With each attempt on her life, she wonders how long it will be before her enemies succeed. Her heart tells her that the thief-turned-wizard Han Alister can be trusted. She wants to believe it-he's saved her life more than once. But with danger coming at her from every direction, Raisa can only rely on her wits and her iron-hard will to survive-and even that might not be enough.

What the Eye Hears

Author : Brian Seibert
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-11-17
ISBN 10 : 9781429947619
Pages : 624 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (947 downloads)

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Different Ways of Dancing

Author : Kathleen Conlon
Publisher : Linden Books
Release Date : 2014-09-14
ISBN 10 : 9780993053900
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (53 downloads)

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EVELINA

Author : David Gomadza
Publisher : David Gomadza
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

Author : Dr Margaret E Walker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-09-28
ISBN 10 : 9781409449508
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (449 downloads)

Download India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective in PDF Full Online Free by Dr Margaret E Walker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Poetical Works

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher :
Release Date : 1890
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:HWK8XF
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher :
Release Date : 1896
ISBN 10 : UCAL:B3550534
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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