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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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One week in August
August, 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother's Blackpool boarding house before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker's woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. When they attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, the events of that evening will change all their lives, both for better and for worse. Romance beckons for all three girls - but can a holiday fling ever lead to something deeper?
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Citizen Intellectuals in Historical Perspective: Reflections on Callahan's “Citizen Ai”
William Callahan's conceptualization of Ai Weiwei as a “citizen intellectual” is the latest in a long-standing cottage industry seeking to make sense of and define China's intellectuals. Frederic Wakeman Jr. in 1972 offered “a typology of intellectual species” for Chinese thinkers and writers in late imperial China: statesman, administrator, ethical idealist, aesthete, and emirite or recluse (Wakeman 1972, 35). Hao Zhidong applies a Weberian lens on twentieth-century Chinese intellectuals to identify nested categories of: professional, cultural, and (smallest of all) critical intellectuals (Hao 2003, 393). Tani Barlow traces the identity of China's thinkers and writers from “intellectual class” in 1905 to “enlightened scholars” in the 1920s to “intellectual” (zhishifenzi) ever since. Barlow identifies a tension between the social power of these knowledge specialists and their dangerous dance with the state in which they succumbed under both Nationalist and Communist regimes to a service role to power, a “category of the state” (Barlow 1991, 216). Merle Goldman has focused on critical intellectuals under the Chinese Communist Party, what most people think of as critics and dissidents. Carol Hamrin and I sought to go beyond Goldman's focus on dissidents to study “establishment intellectuals” by looking at “the motives and means for collaboration, as well as the sources of tension and conflict between leading intellectuals and the top Communist Party leadership” (Hamrin and Cheek 1986, 3). “Establishment intellectual” proved a useful category for opening up our understanding of intellectual participation at the elite level under Mao and during the 1980s. The 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations and the June 4th massacre and crackdown changed everything. Merle Goldman usefully picked up on these changes by identifying the rise of “disestablished intellectuals” in the post-Tiananmen period, particularly intellectuals who had been active in the reformist administration of the CCP in the 1980s associated with disgraced General Secretary Hu Yaobang (Goldman 2007, 15ff, 86ff). These fallen establishment intellectuals populated the academic posts, publishing ventures, and new business opportunities that exploded after Deng Xiaoping's famous certification of economic reform in his 1992 “Southern Tour.”
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How do you wokka-wokka?
A young boy who likes to \"wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake, and shocka-shocka\" gathers his neighbors together for a surprise celebration.
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Danses Et Concepts En Océanie
La danse demeure encore l'une des productions culturelles les plus fortes dans le Pacifique. Loin d'être de simples manifestations folkloriques, les danses océaniennes ont diverses fonctions. Des exemples pris au répertoire kanak pour la Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour la Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer la complexité de ces chorégraphies. Le droit d'auteur, la protection des savoirs et l'art sont évoqués pour restituer les danses océaniennes dans un contexte en mutation.
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Best. Night. Ever : a story told from seven points of view
On the night of a middle school dance, excitement yields to complications for seven students, some who perform with their rock band, some who attend, and some who have other obligations.
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Festivals De Danse Traditionnelle Africaine Et Développement
L'Afrique est le continent par excellence des danses ancestrales. On remarque aujourd'hui dans le paysage culturel camerounais une effervescence et un déploiement extraordinaire des festivals de danse patrimoniale en son sein. N'y a-t-il pas, au-delà de cette mobilisation des foules, de sérieux mobiles qui sous-tendent l'agglutination humaine ainsi observée autour des festivals ? Si oui, de quelle nature sont-ils ? Peuvent-ils être d'ordre politique, économique ou tout simplement culturel ?
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Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's \"sweetheart dance.\"
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Gender, romance and the school ball
This article reports on how a group of year 13 students, from three New Zealand secondary schools, negotiated popular cultural and media constructions of the school ball as a romantic space for girls, and an event similar in importance to their wedding day. None of the female participants viewed the ball as a site of romance for them personally. Instead, it was some of the male participants who constructed the ball as a romantic space through linking the ball to a wedding and discussing their motivation for taking their girlfriends to the event. Initially, the young men's discussions of romance appear to challenge the emotionally inexpressive version of masculinity prized in New Zealand culture. However, these discussions also acted as a resource for the young men to constitute their \"adult\" hegemonic masculine subjectivities. It appears young men and women are challenging traditional discourses of gender in the twenty-first century.
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