The Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude

Author: Ann O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Raven Productions
ISBN: 9780975564967
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
This second edition has a new cover, trim size and page count. Living with love and gratitude is at the center of the well-lived life. Heron Dance celebrates the open heart and the beauty and mystery that surround us with this book of poetry, book and interview excerpts. Included are 48 watercolors by Rod MacIver and selections from the written works of Helen Keller, Rachel Naomi Remen, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Einstein, Pablo Casals, Joseph Campbell, Dostoevsky, and Henry Miller, among many others. Introduction by Heron Dance editor Ann O'Shaughnessy.

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.

A Chance to Dance

Author: Tammi Keen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974547623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Reagan is an eight-year-old little girl with autism who just wants to be free to be herself and dance in a place where she feels safe and happy. Her mom decides to start A Chance to Dance, a class where all children are included. Based on the true story of the North Carolina dancers who are showing the world that they are not limited by their diagnoses, this book shows you just how much children can accomplish when they're given a chance and treated with kindness.

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.

Worlding Dance

Author: S. Foster
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230236847
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

Chance and Circumstance

Author: Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307575608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 997

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.

No Thanks, But I'd Love to Dance!

Author: Jackie Reimer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604430271
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Originally published in 2008 by Jackie Reimer."

The Riot and the Dance Adventure Book

Author: Gordon Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947644410
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Join in the glorious uproar of creation with The Riot and the Dance Adventure Book, adapted from the boisterous new nature documentary by bestselling children's author N.D. Wilson. Now you can follow along with Dr. Gordon Wilson as he traverses our planet, basking in God's masterpieces whether he's catching wildlife in mountain ponds or in the jungles of Sri Lanka. (Yeah, he did get bitten, but not by the cobra.) Beautiful photos and powerful narration will open your eyes to the extraordinary glory found all over the animal kingdom, starting with your own back yard. As a student, Gordon Wilson was told he'd never be a "real" biologist unless he stopped blabbing about all that Creator-creature nonsense. Now, Gordon is the Senior Fellow of Natural History at New Saint Andrews College and the author of The Riot and the Dance, a textbook for high school and undergraduate biology students.

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.