Dancing Across The Page

Author : Karen Barbour
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1841505013
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across the Page written by Karen Barbour and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contemporary dance making, improvisation, and dance education, Karen Barbour explores a diversity of themes, including power; activism; and cultural, gendered, and personal identity. An intimate yet rigorous investigation of creativity in dance, Dancing across the Page emphasizes embodied knowledge and imagination as a basis for creative action in the world.

Author : Karen Nicole Barbour
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841504216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across the Page written by Karen Nicole Barbour and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a narrative exploration of embodied ways of knowing through dance. Discussing theoretical perspectives such as phenomenology, feminism and postmodernism, it offers the reader a comprehensive theoretical understanding of a range of approaches within cultural and performance studies that remains grounded in personal narratives and lived experiences. By using narratives that relate to dance making, improvisation and dance pedagogy, as well as moving in the wider world, the author explores a variety of themes including cultural and personal identity, dance and performance, knowledge and power, pedagogy and activism. Comprised of nine chapters, this book is a combination of higher theoretical ideas and relatable personal and local narratives that provide the reader with a comprehensive exploration of embodied ways of knowing as a basis for their own creative action in the world.

Author : Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768775
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across Borders written by Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change and transformation in the lives of young people through dance. Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills- and knowledge-based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world. This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics and interdisciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations.

Author : Norma E. Cantú
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076095
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across Borders written by Norma E. Cantú and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the border

Author : Anthony Shay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786437847
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across Borders written by Anthony Shay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twentieth century and especially since 1950, millions have begun learning and performing various Balkan dances, the tango, and other Latin American dances, along with the classical dances of India, Japan, and Indonesia. Most studies in dance ethnography and anthropology have focused specifically on "dancing in the field," or the dancing that native dancers do. This study, by contrast, examines the ways in which ethnic dancing has allowed many Americans to create more exciting, "exotic" and romantic identities. The author describes the uniquely American enthusiasm for exotic dances, and cites specific deficiencies in the U.S. cultural identity that have led many people to seek new feelings and experiences through exotic dance genres.

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1443119873
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Through the Snow written by Jean Little and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again. Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min continues to build a protective wall around herself. Her newest caregiver, a former Children's Aid doctor, sees past Min's hardened shell and tries to find a way to reach her...and does, finally, by taking in a sick, neglected dog that has escaped from a puppy mill. While watching the dog recover and open its heart to its new owners, Min comes out of her own shell. Readers will rejoice as Min opens her heart and allows herself to be a part of a loving family, to make friends and to finally stand up to the taunts of a bully, whose hurtful words have contributed to her lack of self-esteem.

Author : Nicola Yoon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 152471898X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructions for Dancing written by Nicola Yoon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A charming, wholehearted love story that's sure to make readers swoon."—Entertainment Weekly "Nicola Yoon writes from the heart in this beautiful love story."—Good Morning America “It’s like an emotional gut punch—so beautiful and also heart-wrenching."—US Weekly In this romantic page-turner from the author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star, Evie has the power to see other people’s romantic fates—what will happen when she finally sees her own? Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything--including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he's only just met. Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it's that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?

Author : Nina Jeanne Still
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502554307
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across Heaven written by Nina Jeanne Still and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Across Heaven is the sequel to Down From Skitts Mountain. It is the finishing memoir to the historical fiction of the first book in the sequel, the story of a dysfunctional family and its way into reality through love, understanding, and faith. Dancing is the story of Abe and Lillie Hilsman, their backgrounds, their love and their struggles. It takes us from their meeting to their re-meeting upon their deaths. This is the love story of a young couple of the 1940s who, through their lives together, ultimately are exalted through love.

Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520063334
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Dancing written by Susan Leigh Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 148148740X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Hands written by Margarita Engle and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael López tell the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too—the Civil War. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa’s music bring comfort to those who needed it most?