Dancing To Freedom

Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Walker Childrens
ISBN 13 : 9780802797773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing to Freedom written by Li Cunxin and published by Walker Childrens. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America. From there his career took flight, and he danced in cities around the world—never forgetting his family, who urged him to follow his dreams.

Author : Danielle Goldman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472050842
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Want to Be Ready written by Danielle Goldman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760899216
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the extraordinary true story of one boy's great courage and determinationIn a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China..This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West. Since its release in 2003, Mao's Last Dancer has sold all around the world and been made into a major motion picture. Like millions of other peasants' lives, it was a story that nearly vanished amidst revolution and chaos. It's a story of courage, a mother's love, a young boy's longing for freedom - a beautiful, rich account of an inspirational life, told with honesty, dignity and pride.

Author : Sondra Roberts-Stott
Publisher : Sondra Roberts-Stott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing To Freedom written by Sondra Roberts-Stott and published by Sondra Roberts-Stott. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To all the writers who contributed their work to this book, we want to express our heartfelt thanks. Thank you for reading, sharing, and participating in this Anthology of Journeys through 'Life.' You can find individual bios at the beginning of each story. Your visions of life, aspects of the world, and memories of experiences past, present, and future have been truly inspiring. Together, we are one, we are many, hand in hand we walk through Time, Place, Experience, and Reflections. Your written work has allowed us to embark on a journey with you into your freedom, explored and expressed in your unique way. Thank you for sharing your piece of history with us.

Author : Dhyanis Carniglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736480601
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Life written by Dhyanis Carniglia and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Travel Memoir by Dhyanis Carniglia. Fleeing with a toddler from a dangerous marriage, Dhyanis travels across several continents on her quest to become a self-sustaining artist. During a time of cataclysmic shifting norms in San Francisco, she sets off with her daughter to live in Quebec, Mexico, The Sierras, Hawaii, England, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, and Egypt. She takes us on her engaging feminist journey, laced with elements of peril and driven by the appetites of youth. Her faith often challenged, Dhyanis follows her heart wherever in the world it leads. In her search for self-expression, Dhyanis becomes a professional belly dancer. With creativity and resilience she overcomes predicaments and self-doubt in her search for her true calling and true love. This book inspires readers to laugh, cry, and dance along with Dhyanis. Her extraordinary adventures may dare you to travel, create, and love.

Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063299496
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancer from the Dance written by Andrew Holleran and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.”—Harper’s “Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights – about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its transience.”—The Guardian Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell. Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.

Author : Abagail Fritz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Freedom written by Abagail Fritz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439124949
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing at the Rascal Fair written by Ivan Doig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.

Author : Megan Pugh
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216653
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Dancing written by Megan Pugh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael Jackson, Megan Pugh shows how freedom—that nebulous, contested American ideal—emerges as a genre-defining aesthetic. In Pugh’s account, ballerinas mingle with slumming thrill-seekers, and hoedowns show up on elite opera house stages. Steps invented by slaves on antebellum plantations captivate the British royalty and the Parisian avant-garde. Dances were better boundary crossers than their dancers, however, and the issues of race and class that haunt everyday life shadow American dance as well. Deftly narrated, America Dancing demonstrates the centrality of dance in American art, life, and identity, taking us to watershed moments when the nation worked out a sense of itself through public movement.

Author : Sharon Hinck
Publisher : Enclave Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621840992
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Current written by Sharon Hinck and published by Enclave Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** WINNER: Christy Award, Visionary *** The dancers of the Order direct their floating world of Meriel with their movement... but are they steering it toward destruction? Calara spent her life learning dance patterns and seeking to become the perfect servant to her people. When she discovers the work of the Order is built on lies, she flees with a rough-edged herder, Brantley of Windswell. Pursued by soldiers, her journey through the suffering villages of the rim leads her to encounter a truth that sends ripples through her world--and through her soul. As she seeks clues to her forgotten family, Calara discovers newfound courage in the face of danger, while her quest awakens a growing but forbidden affection for Brantley. Yet even his support can't fully be trusted, since he'd rather destroy the Order than bring reform. She is a lone woman facing opposition from rim villages and treachery from the all-powerful Order. Can she restore the dance to its true purpose and bring freedom and hope to her people?