Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)

Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)
Author: John Robert Allman
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593181166

A lively and encouraging picture book celebrating boys who love to dance, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. Boys who love to dance are center stage in this encouraging, positive, rhyming picture book about guys who love to pirouette, jeté, and plié. Created in partnership with the American Ballet Theatre and with the input of their company's male dancers, here is a book that shows ballet is for everyone. Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, this book subtly seeks to address the prejudice toward boys and ballet by showing the skill, hard work, strength, and smarts is takes to be a dancer. Fun and buoyant illustrations show boys of a variety of ages and ethnicities, making this the ideal book for any boy who loves dance. An afterword with photos and interviews with some of ABT's male dancers completes this empowering and joyful picture book.

Boys Don't Dance!

Boys Don't Dance!
Author: Nelson
Publisher: Rigby PM Plus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780757841255

Luke worries that his schoolmates might see him taking his sister to her dancing lesson. To his surprise, he finds that the class looks interesting and that dancing is fun.

Sorry I Don't Dance

Sorry I Don't Dance
Author: Maxine Leeds Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0199845298

Explores the feminization, sexualization, and racialization of dance in America since the 1960s.

Dead Boys Can't Dance

Dead Boys Can't Dance
Author: Michel Dorais
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2004-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773571655

Dorais and Lajeunesse analyse the adverse ways being stigmatized as homosexual affects personality and behaviour, discerning four types of reaction: the 'perfect boy,' whose perfectionism and asexuality are an attempt to minimize the difference between how he is perceived and what he is supposed to be; the 'chameleon,' who attempts to keep everyone from suspecting his secret but constantly feels like an impostor; the 'token fag,' who serves as a scapegoat to his peers, especially at school, and suffers a consequent rejection and lack of self-esteem; and the 'rebel,' who actively rejects any stigma based on his sexual orientation and non-conformity. They show that those who are heterosexual but suspected of being homosexual are most at risk of suicide and make recommendations for suicide prevention.

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Tough Guys Don't Dance
Author: Norman Mailer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812986113

“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure. Stunningly conceived and vividly composed, Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers. Praise for Tough Guys Don’t Dance “As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmerizing as the author himself . . . [Mailer strikes a] dazzling balance between humor and horror.”—New York Daily News “A first-rate page-turner of a murder mystery . . . full of great characters, littered with dead bodies and replete with plausible suspects.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tough Guys Don’t Dance] has that charming Mailer bravado.”—The New York Times

Lupe Wong Won't Dance

Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Author: Donna Barba Higuera
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1646140044

My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to read a book that starts like that?? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy...like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide. Not since Millicent Min, Girl Genius has a debut novel introduced a character so memorably, with such humor and emotional insight. Even square dancing fans will agree...

Dance with Me

Dance with Me
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763622466

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to wiggle, shake, and twirl to the beat.

When Langston Dances

When Langston Dances
Author: Kaija Langley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534485198

Inspired by watching a performance of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, a young black boy longs to dance and enrolls in ballet school.

Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity

Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity
Author: Doug Risner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030900002

This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance. Introducing a lens of intersectionality, the book’s content examines why, despite burgeoning popular and contemporary representations of a normalization of dancing masculinities, some boys don’t dance and why many of those who do struggle to stay involved. Prominent themes of identity, masculinity, and intersectionality weave throughout the book’s conceptual frameworks of education and schooling, cultures, and identities in dance. Incorporating empirical studies, qualitative inquiry, and reflexive accounts, Doug Risner and Beccy Watson have assembled a unique volume of original chapters from established scholars and emerging voices to inform the future direction of interdisciplinary dance scholarship and dance education research. The book’s scope spans several related disciplines including gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and sociology. The volume will appeal to dancers, educators, researchers, scholars, students, parents, and caregivers of boys who dance. Accessible at multiple levels, the content is relevant for undergraduate students across dance, dance education, and movement science, and graduate students forging new analysis of dance, pedagogy, gender theory, and teaching praxis.

A Time to Dance

A Time to Dance
Author: Padma Venkatraman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0698158261

Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of the human spirit. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance—so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her disability rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over again, taking beginner classes with the youngest dancers. Then Veda meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda reconnects with the world around her, and begins to discover who she is and what dance truly means to her.