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Author | : Adrienne L. McLean |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-02-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 081354467X |
From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.
Author | : Ellen O'Connell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781466441187 |
After escaping robbers intent on murder, Katherine Grant says, "I jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Before long I'll be dancing on the coals." The highwaymen were the frying pan; the handsome young Apache who saved her from them was the fire; and the coals? Gaetan.Rage against the enemies of his people has consumed Gaetan from boyhood. The only use he ever found for any white was to test the sharpness of his knife. Forced by his brother to endure Katherine's company, Gaetan tries to deny what he sees - the white woman has a man's temper and a lion's courage. She has an Apache heart.In spite of hate, distrust and fear, surviving in the rugged country of southern Arizona and northern Mexico forges a strange bond between Katherine and Gaetan. When the bond turns to love, can they admit it? Can they bear the consequences?
Author | : |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Cajun music |
ISBN | : 9781455601769 |
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307777685 |
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
Author | : Susan C. Cook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 131717352X |
From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as ’bodies of sound’. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels. In Part I: Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part II: Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part III: (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part IV: Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation.
Author | : Gilbert, Anne Green |
Publisher | : Human Kinetics |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2018-09-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1492561231 |
Anne Green Gilbert’s Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, strikes the perfect balance between hard science and practicality, making it an ideal resource for dance educators working with dancers of all ages and abilities. Gilbert presents the latest brain research and its implications for dance educators and dancers. She makes the research findings accessible and easy to digest, always connecting the science to the teaching and learning that takes place in classrooms and studios.
Author | : Susan Taylor Chehak |
Publisher | : Susan Taylor Chehak |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452413304 |
Author | : Andrea Olsen |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0819574066 |
The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the science of body with creative practice. This workbook integrates experiential anatomy with the process of moving and dancing, with a particular focus on the creative journey involved in choreographing, improvising, and performing for the stage. Each of the chapters, or "days," introduces a particular theme and features a dance photograph, information on the topic, movement and writing investigations, personal anecdotes, and studio notes from professional artists and educators for further insight. The third in a trilogy of works about the body, including Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy and Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, The Place of Dance will help each reader understand his/her dancing body through somatic work, create a dance, and have a full journal clarifying aesthetic views on his or her practice. It is well suited for anyone interested in engaging embodied intelligence and living more consciously. Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Author | : John Buchan |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473373603 |
Edward Leithen is one of John Buchan's most famous heroes. Here Leithen finds himself in Greece with an old friend and must save the life a stubborn but beautiful young women.
Author | : Taylor Ellwood |
Publisher | : Taylor Ellwood |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2018-10-13 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1723885525 |
Unlock the power of your identity... In Magical Identity, Taylor Ellwood explores how you can change your identity and why making changes to your identity is the most effective magical practice you'll ever learn for getting results. In this book you will learn: Advanced neuro-magic techniques for working with your body consciousness and neurotransmitter entities. The web of Time and Space, a space/time magic technique for changing your identity. Space/time tarot magic techniques or evoking possibilities into results. Imagination and memory techniques for manifesting possibilities into results using your identity. How to use non-linear time to transform possibilities into results. And much, much more. Effective practical magic is magic that includes identity, and in this book you'll learn why. Magical Identity shows you how to transform who you are, to get the results you want.