Willa the Ballerina

Willa the Ballerina
Author: Leela Hope
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533080417

Are your children worried about performing onstage? Do they ever feel clumsy or out of place? Willa is the only wolf in a ballet class filled with graceful swans. The swans do not hide their feelings about Willa's dancing. Willa thinks that she is going to ruin the big recital so she runs away. Come with Willa on this journey of self-discovery as she learns what she is really capable of when she believes in herself. The story comes alive through vivid illustration and is told in rhyming verse. A terrific story for kids of all ages, it is the perfect book for kids 0-5.

Willa Cather and the Dance

Willa Cather and the Dance
Author: Wendy K. Perriman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0838642039

Anna Pavlova's revolutionary debut in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House captivated the nation and introduced Americans to the charms of modern ballet. Willa Cather was among the first intellectuals to recognize that dance had suddenly been elevated into a new art form, and she quickly trained herself to become one of the leading balletomanes of her era. Willa Cather and the Dance: "A Most Satisfying Elegance" traces the writer's dance education, starting with the ten-page explication she wrote in 1913 for McClure's magazine called "Training for the Ballet." Cather's interest was sustained through her entire canon as she utilized characters, scenes, and images from almost all of the important dance productions that played in New York.

Willa by Heart

Willa by Heart
Author: Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2008-06-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439103798

It's almost summer on Cape Cod, where Willa Havisham and Joey Kennelly are finally enjoying their status as the most compatible couple at Bramble Academy. When the community theater advertises auditions for Our Town, Willa and Joey seem fated to play the romantic leads. But when Marielle, the dazzling new girl, offers up some dramatic competition, Willa turns greener than the lawn at her parents' inn. With two inn weddings the same weekend in June, Willa, who is now the official assistant wedding planner, has enough to do just helping Chef Rosie bake the wedding cakes of the century, and keeping sixteen beauty pageant bridesmaids in check. When a dance with a Southern gentleman sends her spinning under the stars, there's no telling what is destined for Willa and Joey.

Ballerina Flying

Ballerina Flying
Author: Alexa Brandenberg
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780060295493

Mina loves ballet. She loves her pink tutu. She loves her ballet slippers. But what she dreams about most is flying like a ballerina. At ballet class, Mina practices the five positions and all her dance steps, including plies, tendus, and pirouettes. Over and over again she practices. She is one step closer to flying. Dance along with Mina and her friends in this simple introduction to ballet. Soon you will be one step closer to flying, too!

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Author: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137512350

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.

Join In

Join In
Author: Donald R. Gallo
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307779394

Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.

Willa

Willa
Author: R&K Ballet Publishing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre:
ISBN:

Cute Dance Notebook / Ballet Journal for Girls 120 pages 6x9 White-color paper Matte Finish Cover for an elegant look and feel Perfect for anyone who loves, practices, or performs ballet dance or dancing, or anyone who is a ballerina or ballerino. Great if you love arabesque, pirouette, abstract or modern ballet moves. Also great if you are a choreographer, love choreography, or are a dance teacher or student. OTHER USES Gratitude Journal Travel Journal 5-Minute Journal Affirmation Journal Mindfulness Journal Positivity & Mood Journal Prayer Journal Writing Journal Poetry Journal Work Journal Goal Journal Daily Planner Dream Journal Password Journal Art Journal Log Book Diary

Willa & Hesper

Willa & Hesper
Author: Amy Feltman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538712563

For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back to her grandfather's hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, looking for the origin story that he is no longer able to tell. But once in Tbilisi, cracks appear in her grandfather's history-and a massive flood is heading toward Georgia, threatening any hope for repair. Meanwhile, heartbroken Willa is so desperate to leave New York that she joins a group trip for Jewish twentysomethings to visit Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland, hoping to override her emotional state. When it proves to be more fraught than home, she must come to terms with her past-the ancestral past, her romantic past, and the past that can lead her forward. Told from alternating perspectives, and ending in the shadow of Trump's presidency, WILLA & HESPER is a deeply moving, cerebral, and timely debut

Switched

Switched
Author: Jessica Wollman
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-07-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375849033

From rags . . . Laura Mellon has never met a fabric she couldn't soften or a stain she couldn't remove. She's tired of cleaning houses with her starry-eyed mom. But it's the only way she'll save enough $$$ for college. To riches . . . Willa Pogue can't enjoy being an heiress. She's too busy worrying about fitting in at Fenwick, her snooty new Connecticut boarding school. Then she meets Laura, her new maid. Laura's the spitting image of Willa! Soon Laura is trading vacuums for Fenwick's ivy-covered campus, and Willa is sinking blissfully into the anonymity of the hired help. But then Laura begins to fall for preppy Caleb Blake, and Willa discovers a brandnew (and completely unacceptable for a Pogue) passion. Can the girls ever return to their old lives?

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance
Author: Lynn Garafola
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2005-01-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780819566744

Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.