Dance Art

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home - to his mother, father, and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li realised that his mother was right. He had the chance to do something special with his life - and he never turned back.

Lou, 17 ans, ne vit que pour danser. L'école, la famille, l'amour: tout s'estompe devant cette passion brûlante. C'est dans ses guêtres et ses chaussons, entre les mains d'un partenaire russe capable de la propulser en silence vers le ciel, que la jeune danseuse fera ses premières armes en tant que femme. Mais, dans cet univers de tulle et de strass, les chutes sont aussi vertigineuses que les envolées…

Après un mois particulièrement mouvementé à apprendre le patinage artistique, voilà que Billie s'apprête à découvrir un nouveau sport: la natation artistique! Billie ne connaît pratiquement rien à cette discipline, mais elle a déjà hâte de monter une routine avec ses camarades. Pour y arriver, elle devra travailler sa force, son endurance et sa souplesse. Malheureusement, un triste accident impliquant son amie Hanna, qui habite toujours chez elle pendant l'année scolaire, viendra assombrir son entraînement.

Hello. It's Todd Barry. Yes, the massively famous comedian. I have billons of fans all over the world, so I do my fair share of touring. While I love doing shows in the big cities (New York, Chicago, Cleveland), I also enjoy a good secondary market (Rochester, Springfield, Toledo). There's something great about performing in a place where they don't expect to see you.

Jazz dance is full of energy. Listen along as jazz dancers leap and tuck to the music.

If I were a ballerina, I would wear pointe shoes. I would stretch my legs and leap across the stage! Dream big, and see what fun it is to be a ballerina.

Hip hop dancers show off cool moves. Listen along as they rock and twist to the music.

In this companion volume to The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more than three thousand years of human artistic achievement, examining painting, sculpture, architecture, theology, philosophy, history, poetry, drama, literature, dance, music, and film.

As the only African-American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious 13-year-old to become a ground­breaking ballerina. Life in Motion is a story of passion and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life.

In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle. Her professional life has been - and continues to be - one collaboration after another. In this practical sequel to her national best seller The Creative Habit, Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her - and can be for you.

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art—not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open your mind to the world of this unique form of dance in ways that only a student of the art could.

El flamenco es arte, pasión, dolor, sentimiento... y misterio. Muchas han sido las teorías que, a lo largo de la historia, se han formulado para explicar su origen, su excepcionalidad y su endemismo andaluz. Algunas, puramente nominalistas y radicalmente erróneas, como la de que viene de Flandes; otras, simplemente reduccionistas, como la de que es un arte gitano. Blas Infante lanzó una nueva y clarividente teoría al asociar su origen con el íntimo dolor de los derrotados y humillados andalusíes y moriscos, fellah mengu, de la que vendría la expresión de flamenco.

Everything you need to know about making music in one place, 2024 and beyond! Not so long ago, music production was only available to the rich and famous. However, these days, it’s now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home. In fact, you don’t even need to know how to play an instrument or know anything about the technology, or even need expensive equipment. All you need is a decent computer and some inspiration. This audiobook will tell you the rest!

Invisible Visibility discusses the key barriers that marginalize disabled artists from taking center stage and looks at examples of good practice through three key case studies. This audiobook puts forward an agenda for change, inclusion, and, ultimately, visibility within the sector and beyond for disabled dancers from culturally diverse backgrounds.

If you have a budding ballerina or are simply going to see Swan Lake with your child, this book builds an understanding of the story line and includes the full musical score. This is a great way to introduce your child to the ballet masterwork so they have a better appreciation for the ballet when experiencing it in person. The story is told in synchronization with the music so that the young listener understands the story and how the music reflects the story line.

Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life. At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor - wherever and whenever it may be - that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

A wealth of proven technical, practical, and theoretical knowledge in one book, this comprehensive collection will take your music production to the next level.

Who can benefit from art therapy? The best thing about art therapy is that it doesn’t ask for you to have the mad skills of Leonardo da Vinci or Picasso to to reap its benefits. Discover the benefits of music therapy, dance therapy, drawing therapy, coloring, art therapy, and neuroscience to improve your life.

This book explores the historical and cultural conditions of the genre as it appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s and then again in the early 2000s, and illuminates what is at stake in delineating dance-punk as a genre. Looking at bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, Public Image Ltd., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Le Tigre, this book examines the tensions between and blurring of the rhetoric and emotion in dance music and the cynical and ironic intellectualizing associated with post-punk.

As a journalist in London, William discovered the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual competition known for its extravagant performers and cutthroat politics. Initially just a fan, he started blogging about the contest, ultimately becoming the most sought-after expert on the subject. William was soon jetting across the continent to meet divas, drag queens, and aspiring singers, who welcomed him to their beautiful, if dysfunctional, family of choice.