Chance or the Dance?

Author: Thomas Howard
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1642290343
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
In this new edition of a modern classic, Thomas Howard contrasts the Christian and secular worldviews, refreshing our minds with the illuminated vision of reality that inspired the world in times past and showing us that we cannot live meaningful lives without it. Howard explains in clear and beautiful prose the way materialism robs us of beauty, depth, and truth. With laser precision and lyrical ponderings he takes us through the dismal reductionist view of the world to the shimmering significance of the world as sign and sacrament. More timely now than when it was first written, this book is a prophetic examination of modern society's conscience.

Ellie's Chance to Dance

Author: Alexandra Moss
Publisher: Hippo Bks
ISBN: 9780439963701
Category : Ballet dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Nine-year-old Clara has won a place at a top London ballet - it's what she's always wanted, but as well as excitement there are nerves too - what if all the other girls are better than her? And what about the friends she's leaving behind...? Book One: Clara gets a letter offering her a place at the ballet school. Although she's over the moon, it means saying goodbye to her old friends and ballet teacher, Miss Zindel, and preparing to start a new school and make new friends...

Cloud Dance

Author: Thomas Locker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152045968
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
This book describes clouds of many shapes and sizes that drift and dance across the sky.

Chicken Dance

Author: Tammi Sauer
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402753664
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Determined to win tickets to an Elvis Poultry concert, hens Marge and Lola enter the Barnyard Talent Show, then, while the ducks who usually win the contest jeer, they test out their abilities.

Merce Cunningham

Author: Carrie Noland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654124X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham’s work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with the visionary composer John Cage or insisting that randomness was the singular goal of his choreography. In this book, the first dedicated to the complete arc of Cunningham’s career, Carrie Noland brings new insight to this transformative artist’s philosophy and work, providing a fresh perspective on his artistic process while exploring aspects of his choreographic practice never studied before. Examining a rich and previously unseen archive that includes photographs, film footage, and unpublished writing by Cunningham, Noland counters prior understandings of Cunningham’s influential embrace of the unintended, demonstrating that Cunningham in fact set limits on the role chance played in his dances. Drawing on Cunningham’s written and performed work, Noland reveals that Cunningham introduced variables before the chance procedure was applied and later shaped and modified the chance results. Chapters explore his relation not only to Cage, but also Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, James Joyce, and Bill T. Jones. Ultimately, Noland shows that Cunningham approached movement as more than “movement in itself,” and that his work enacted archetypal human dramas. This remarkable book will forever change our appreciation of the choreographer’s work and legacy.

I Hope You Dance

Author: Mark D. Sanders
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418578525
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Few songs have inspired a nation as did Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope you Dance." It affirms life and challenges you to live fully, joyously and with abandon. The companion book published in 2001 perfectly captured the message of the song and, with 1.7 million copies sold, became one of the best selling books of this decade. So much so that the book now stands alone and the message of the book transcends the original market of people who loved the song. This new edition has a fresh new cover and a lower price and does not include the companion CD.

Ten Cents a Dance

Author: Christine Fletcher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599901641
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.

Chance and Circumstance

Author: Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307575608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.

Rupert Can Dance

Author: Jules Feiffer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374363633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
Although Rupert liked watching his owner Mandy dance during the day, he secretly enjoyed dancing at night while Mandy slept.

Everybody Can Dance!

Author: Kara Navolio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947860360
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text portray a wide variety of people enjoying dance in many form. Includes brief notes about each dance style depicted.