And Never Stop Dancing

Author: Gordon Livingston
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786726539
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
In Dr. Gordon Livingston's follow-up to his national bestseller Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, he offers thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths he identifies and explores in this book, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear. We all live downstream. One of life's most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Most people die with their music still inside of them. Dr. Livingston's sterling qualities are in evidence again: a clear and deep understanding of the hidden hypocrisies, desires, evasions, and emotional tumult that course through our lives; an unerring sense of what is important; and his own ability to persevere-to hope-in a world he knows is capable of inflicting unjustifiable and lifelong suffering.

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing

Author: Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913439
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.

Never Stop Dancing

Author: Toni Ortner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504029135
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
“The chapbook is about the experience of being in a mental hospital although it could have been about being in any kind of prison. The specifics are here, and it is well written.” —Judy Hogan, Motheroot Journal

Don't Stop Dancing

Author: Gary Revel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716764349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Gary Revel was asked to get the truth out about Michael Jackson. It took years of hard work and some difficult negotiations but it all came together and now the secrets are revealed. From the frugal early years in Gary, Indiana to the glamour and excess of Hollywood and beyond, the story pours out. A truer, as well as, strange a story as you've ever heard unfolds in the pages of this book as you go with Gary on his journey of investigating the life, music and career of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

Author: Gordon Livingston
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786732261
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
The beloved bestselling collection of common sense wisdom from a celebrated psychologist and military veteran who proves it's never too late to move beyond the deepest of personal losses After service in Vietnam, as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69, at the height of the war, Dr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and began work as a psychiatrist. In that capacity, he has listened to people talk about their lives--what works, what doesn't, and the limitless ways (many of them self-inflicted) that people find to be unhappy. He is also a parent twice bereaved; in one thirteen-month period he lost his eldest son to suicide, his youngest to leukemia. Out of a lifetime of experience, Gordon Livingston has extracted thirty bedrock truths, including: We are what we do. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Only bad things happen quickly. Forgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing. The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas. Livingston illuminates these and twenty-four other truths in a series of carefully hewn, perfectly calibrated essays, many of which focus on our closest relationships and the things that we do to impede or, less frequently, enhance them. Again and again, these essays underscore that "we are what we do," and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret and to move beyond them--that it is not too late. Full of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart offers solace, guidance, and hope to everyone ready to become the person they'd most like to be.

May You Never Stop Dancing

Author: John D. Lawry
Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
ISBN: 9780884895350
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
In letters to his daughter attending college, Lawry offers sage and sane advice that's sure to benefit any college student on a wide range of topics--from getting along with one's roommate to study, reading, writing, and surfing the Internet.

The Midnight Dance

Author: Nikki Katz
Publisher: Swoon Reads
ISBN: 1250123712
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by a mysterious and handsome young master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate. But when flashes of memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she's been leading start to appear, Penny begins to question the world around her. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules she has to follow. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it's too late.

Dance Dance Dance

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
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.

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart and Never Stop Dancing

Author: Gordon Livingston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733623707
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
Dr Gordon Livingston s first book, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, enlightened thousands of readers who have embraced its thirty bedrock truths about life and how best to live it. In And Never Stop Dancing, Dr Livingston a Vietnam War veteran, psychiatrist, and parent twice bereaved offered thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths Dr Livingston identifies and explores are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear. One of life s most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. The two books together will offer sixty concise simple chapters, which makes it simple to read because all you have to do is turn to the chapters that applies to you for that day. For example, on happiness Dr Livingston writes: 'The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love and something to look forward to.

Dead Girl Dancing

Author: Linda Joy Singleton
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738722073
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Apparently, this freaky phenomenon of stepping into someone else’s life—and their body!—has a name: Temp Lifer. Thanks to my dead grandmother, it’s happened again. So now I’m hungover and gazing in the mirror at ... my boyfriend’s sister. Grammy, help!