Author: Peter Young
Publisher: Dundurn
Keywords: dance, pavilions, summer, ontario, celebration, halls
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-09-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1896219020
ISBN-13: 9781896219028
Let’s Dance: A Celebration of Ontario’s Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the live mellow sounds of Big Bands wafted through the air -- Louis Armstrong, the Dorsey Brothers, Bert Niosi, Art Hallman, Johnny Downs, Mart Kenney, Bobby Kinsman, Ronnie Hawkins .... Throughout the 1920s to the ’60s, numerous legendary entertainers drew thousands of people to such memorable venues as the Brant Inn in Burlington, Dunn’s Pavilion in Bala, the Stork Club at Por
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dance
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1995-01-31
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679753796
ISBN-13: 9780679753797
This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki’s whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World
Author: David J. Buch
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Keywords: dance, music, series, philidor, manuscripts, wendy, hilton, transcriptions, source, ballets, cour, historical, commentary, study
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0945193335
ISBN-13: 9780945193333
David Buch’s informative volume is the first modern study, edition, and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour, 1575-1651. These full scores are especiall y important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The exception here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600, a Ballet à cheval of 1615, a selection of miscellaneous Entrées from se
Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: dance, motion, race, negro, modern
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-10-04
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0816637377
ISBN-13: 9780816637379
At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the “serious art” of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called “The First Negro Dance Recital in America,” which Dance Magazine proclaimed “the beginnings of great and important choreographic creations.” Yet never have the two parallel traditions converged in the annals of American dance in the twentieth century. Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book
Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: dance, motion, race, negro, modern
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816637369
ISBN-13: 9780816637362
At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the "serious art" of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called "The First Negro Dance Recital in America," which Dance Magazine proclaimed "the beginnings of great and important choreographic creations." Yet never have the two parallel traditions converged in the annals of American dance in the twentieth century. Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book to bring
Author: Daniel Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: dance, part, vol, cultures, hispanic, choreography
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 3718655349
ISBN-13: 9783718655342
The papers in this collection focuses on dance themes in nations and populations related by language, history and customs to Spain and Latin America and explores the social, religious, anthropological, folkloric and political roles which dance has played in Hispanic cultures. Vibrant dance life in Spain, Central and South America, the Philippines, New York and Miami attests to the very strength of the current that dance in Hispanic culture continues to offer. The essays examine such topics as new Latin dance, cosmic imagery in the religious dances of Seville’s Golden Age, Fanny Elssler i
Authors:Elizabeth A. Hanley, kariamu Welsh,
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: dance, world, african
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2010-01-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1604134771
ISBN-13: 9781604134773
