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Frances dances
Frances loves dancing every day, but when she and her classmates are supposed to dance on stage, Frances gets scared that no one will want to see her dance.
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It Could Lead to Dancing
Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues
for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any
reader of Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace , or
Romeo and Juliet can attest. The popularity of social
dance transcends class, gender, ethnic, and national boundaries. In
the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture,
dance offers crucial insights into debates about emancipation and
acculturation. While traditional Jewish law prohibits men and women
from dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex dancing was understood as
the very sign of modernity--and the ultimate boundary
transgression.
Writers of modern Jewish literature deployed dance scenes as a
charged and complex arena for understanding the limits of
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic mixing, and the implications
of shifting gender norms and marriage patterns, while
simultaneously entertaining their readers. In this pioneering
study, Sonia Gollance examines the specific literary qualities of
dance scenes, while also paying close attention to the broader
social implications of Jewish engagement with dance. Combining
cultural history with literary analysis and drawing connections to
contemporary representations of Jewish social dance, Gollance
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing functions as a flexible metaphor
for the concerns of Jewish communities in the face of cultural
transitions.
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Zoogie boogie fever! : an animal dance book
\"What do the animals at the zoo do when the gates close at night? They boogie until dawn!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dancing out of Line
Dancing out of Linetransports readers back to the 1840s, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form.By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such asJane Eyre, Bleak House,andDaniel Deronda,Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian practices that up to this time have gone unnoticed in critical circles. She analyzes the role of the illustrious dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society, despite his position as a social outsider of nebulous origins. She describes how the daughters of the social elite were expected to \"come out\" to society in the ballroom, the most potent space in the cultural imagination for licentious behavior and temptation. These incongruities generated new, progressive ideas about the body, subjectivity, sexuality, and health.Engelhardt challenges our assumptions about Victorian sensibilities and attitudes toward the sexual/social roles of men and women by bringing together historical voices from various fields to demonstrate the versatility of the dance, not only as a social practice but also as a forum for Victorians to engage in debate about the body and its pleasures and pathologies.
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Lena's slippers
In a time and place of economic hardship and strict teachers, Lena, who wants to dance more than anything else, must devise a creative solution for the recital costume she needs. Includes note about the author's experiences growing up in Romania.
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Polina
Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is just about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level.
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Breaking big
Can Robin learn the discipline he needs to succeed as the principal dancer of his dance company?
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, towards which Dutch people have often felt ambivalent. At the same time, something like a 'Hollandse school', a term first coined in the 1980s, has manifested itself more firmly, with the work of Alex van Warmerdam, pervaded in deadpan irony as its biggest eye-catcher. Using seminal theories of humor and irony as an angle, this study scrutinizes a great number of Dutch films on the basis of categories such as low-class comedies; neurotic romances; deliberate camp; cosmic irony, or grotesque satire. Hence, Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film makes surprising connections between films from various decades: Flodder and New Kids Turbo; Spetters and Simon; Rent a Friend and Ober;
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Ruby Rose : big bravos
Ruby Rose has the best idea ever: she'll put on a dance recital! But when her tights are untangled, her costume is fitted, the tickets are finished, and Ruby Rose makes her way onto the stage, it turns out the audience is caught in the rain! Oh no! Will Ruby Rose let a little thunder and lightning ruin her performance? With some swirling and twirling, Ruby Rose finds a way to star in the best recital ever!
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