Everybody Can Dance!

Everybody Can Dance!
Author: Kara Navolio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781947860360

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text portray a wide variety of people enjoying dance in many form. Includes brief notes about each dance style depicted.

Never Sit If You Can Dance

Never Sit If You Can Dance
Author: Jo Giese
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631525344

An Amazon Bestseller Jo’s mother, Babe, liked to drink, dance, and stay up very late. When the husband she adored went on sales calls, she waited for him in the parking lot, embroidering pillowcases. Jo grew up thinking that the last thing she wanted was to be like her mother. Then it dawned on her that her own happiness was derived in large part from lessons Babe had taught her. Her mother might have had tomato aspic and stewed rhubarb in her fridge, while Jo had organic kale and almond milk in hers, but in more important ways they were much closer in spirit than Jo had once thought. At a turbulent time in America, Never Sit If You Can Dance offers uplifting lessons in old-fashioned civility that will ring true with mothers, daughters, and their families. Told with lighthearted good humor, it’s a charming tale of the way things used to be—and probably still should be.

Dance Is for Everyone

Dance Is for Everyone
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-04
Genre: Alligators
ISBN: 9781454921141

When an alligator shows up to class one day, Mrs. Iraina and her ballet students are very suprised. But she is able to follow along, so they decide it's okay for her to join. The class starts calling her Tanya and even creates a new dance to showcase her larger-than-life talents and big, swishy tail: "The Legend of the Swamp Queen." Tanya has the starring role.

Josephine Wants to Dance

Josephine Wants to Dance
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0007263163

Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully and Josephine learns that there's another way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ever come true?

I Can Dance

I Can Dance
Author: Laurie Hoirup
Publisher: Sharonsdarrow.com
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781937123017

I Can Dance tells of a child diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy who achieved education (bachelor's and master's degree), friendships, family, and professional employment as teacher and administrator. Throughout, the author speaks with frank intimacy about her life with a disability, the good, the bad, and the sometimes strange and surprising. I Can Dance will open eyes and hearts to the potential of people with even severe physical disabilities and show a unique and vibrant individual growing and thriving amidst challenges and opportunities in the lively background of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond, from childhood to grandparenthood. This is a life lived fully and told with enthusiasm. Foreword by Catherine Campisi, former Director, California Department of Rehabilitation, and disability advocate.

The Body Can Speak

The Body Can Speak
Author: Annelise Mertz
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780809324194

The contributors to this book attest that movement is our first language. The book gives a voice to teachers, authors, dancers, directors, actors and choreographers who share their experiences while they address creative-movement education.

An Introduction to Community Dance Practice

An Introduction to Community Dance Practice
Author: Diane Amans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137603402

This popular core textbook offers a clear introduction to community dance practice today, preparing students for the realities of employment in this dynamic and widely studied field. The text is edited by a highly-regarded professional with an international reputation for best practice in community dance, and includes chapters written by an expert panel of contributors, comprising dance artists, practitioners and academics. It combines lively discussion with practical advice on the duty of care, inclusive practice and project coordination. With its stimulating range of case studies, interviews and resources, the reader is encouraged to apply the facts and theories to their own practice. This text is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students on community dance degree programmes, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of dance, theatre and performance studies who are taking specific courses on community dance. It is also accessible to emerging and professional community dance practitioners.

K-pop Dance

K-pop Dance
Author: Chuyun Oh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000642569

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, choreography, and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York, California, and Seoul, the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s and explains its distinctive feature called ‘gestural point choreography’ – front-driven, two-dimensional, decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face – as an example of what the author theorizes as ‘social media dance.’ It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance, suggesting that, by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance, fans are eventually ‘fandoming’ themselves and their bodies. Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies, Korean Studies, Performance Studies, and Dance.