Download or read book Book on the Dance Floor written by Brice Najar and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Spring of 1997, the promotion of the HIStory album seemed as if it would continue for quite a while, especially since Michael Jackson's eponymous European tour was imminent. And yet, contrary to fans' expectations, a new album entitled Blood On The Dance Floor was announced. More than two decades later, Brice Najar decided to explore the history of this unusual and very special collection of music in the King of Pop's discography. As in Najar's previous book, Let's Make HIStory, he reached out to Michael Jackson's collaborative partners. Through their stories, he was able to fully examine this era, and to understand the context of Jackson's creative process during this time. Ultimately, Book On The Dance Floor serves as a complement to Najar's previous work, and adds to fans' insights into Jackson's life and legacy.

Download or read book Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980 1983 written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

Download or read book Rock the Dancefloor written by Phil Morse and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know how it feels to be the DJ, to share the music you love with other people, to receive the adulation of packed dancefloors night after night, this book will show you exactly what to do to get there. Whether you're brand-new to this, a DJ who wants to finally break out of the bedroom, or you just want to improve your game, the five-step formula in Rock The Dancefloor! will help you to become a truly great DJ. This clear and practical guide will enable you to: Understand modern DJ gear, in order to avoid expensive mistakes Assemble the best music collection, so you can fill any dancefloor Quickly master all the techniques, so your DJ mixes sound amazing Perform like a pro at any type of gig: parties, bars, night clubs... Promote yourself effectively, for more and better paid bookings

Download or read book If the Dance Floor Is Empty Change the Song written by Joe Clark and published by Dave Burgess Consulting. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading schools with courage, intention, and honesty What can a deejay teach us about the classroom? What does a superintendent do besides decide when to close school for snow? What makes someone a great teacher or a great principal? In this collection of essays, Dr. Joe Clark answers these questions by offering a model for compassionate, principled, and student-centered school leadership. In the process, If the Dance Floor Is Empty, Change the Song offers leaders a handbook for placing kindness, community, and diversity at the heart of successful education. Full of humor and resilience, Clark's essays beam with as much range as they do insight. He dives right into issues like changing instructional standards, increased reliance on testing, and anxiety about social media in schools--and others--while providing collegial advice that new school leaders in particular will find indispensable. With an eye toward centering students, supporting teachers, and empowering communities, If the Dance Floor Is Empty, Change the Song never loses sight of the human needs and connections that ultimately drive learning. This is the type of read that can rejuvenate a veteran, or give new teachers tools to keep their morale and inspiration at their peak. The lessons you learn from this book can carry over throughout the year, even when you don't know if you can get through it. --Amber Teamann, principal of Whitt Elementary in Wylie ISD in Wylie, Texas Woven through these pages are stories of connection, told with the candor and vulnerability necessary for promoting personal and professional growth. There is something for everyone in this book! --Tamara Letter, MEd, instructional coach, technology integrator, and author of A Passion for Kindness It's been said that we never know the struggles that someone is going through, so we should treat them kindly always. In If the Dance Floor Is Empty, Change the Song, Joe Clark embraces his own vulnerability to share how he reclaimed his story after a traumatic childhood and used his life experiences--and his time as a DJ and camp director--to guide his work as a school leader. This book is an often humorous, sometimes melancholy look into what teaching and school leadership are all about. It's a tremendous read that I know you'll enjoy. --Thomas C. Murray, director of innovation at Future Ready Schools and author of Personal & Authentic

Download or read book The Dancing Floor written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Leithen is one of John Buchan's most famous heroes. Here Leithen finds himself in Greece with an old friend and must save the life a stubborn but beautiful young women.

Download or read book Hip Hop Dance written by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides an overview of the history of hip hop culture and an exploration of its dance style, appropriate both for student research projects and general interest reading. Rapping. Breakdancing. MCing. DJing. Beatboxing. Graffiti art. These are just some of the most well-known artistic expressions spawned from hip hop culture, which has grown from being an isolated inner-city subculture in the 1970s to being a truly international and mainstream culture that has taken root in countries as diverse as Japan, France, Israel, Poland, Brazil, South Korea, and England. This insightful book provides not only an overview of hip hop's distinctive dance style and steps, but also a historic overview of hip hop's roots as an urban expression of being left out of the mainstream pop culture, clarifying the social context of hip hop culture before it became a widespread suburban phenomenon. Hip Hop Dance documents all the forms of street music that led to one of the most groundbreaking, expressive, and influential dance styles ever created.

Download or read book True Stories from the Dance Floor written by Kevin G. Stephenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of true stories, experiences and direct quotes of people from the social dance community from around and outside the United States. Many of the comments came from a dancing social networking group I managed years ago. The contributors have various dance backgrounds such as Swing, Latin Dance, Ballroom and many others. The contributors range from novice to professionals. The stories offer basic insight into how people in relationship should treat one another. Also what we tend to learn about people as we encounter them on the social dance floor. Please note. The opinions expressed are solely of the contributors and not necessarily of the author of this book. Enjoy

Download or read book Back onto the Dance Floor written by Annemarie Nikolaus and published by Annemarie Nikolaus. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sixteen years, Friederike Lagrange dares to return to the dance floor for the first time: A serious car accident had forced her to give up competition dancing. Instead, dance became her research topic and she made a career as a professor in history. A colleague becomes her new partner because her husband George doesn‘t want to take part in a simple dance circle like a beginner: It would be beneath his dignity as chairman of the Lietzensee Dance Club. But he supports her when she wants to shoot a film about the dances of the Baroque with the square dancers and the Latin formation of the club. Then suddenly he wants to dance the Baroque dances with her himself. Friederike is faced with a dilemma: Since the accident she has longed to be able to dance with her husband again one day. But she also doesn't want to disappoint her colleague. Can she find a way out that doesn't offend either of them? Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone.

Download or read book Gettin to the Dance Floor written by Al Barkow and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Off the Dance Floor written by ,deMichelle and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many people in the world who have always wanted to learn to dance. There are other people who believe that their time has passed and wish they had tried long ago. This is the story of someone who, in her forties, not only tried but made it a lifestyle. With nothing more than a childhood dream of wanting to stand out among the rest, she wanted to dance, to be included in the elite group of dancers, and, in the end, to teach. Follow her along the path to success in an unforgiving and crazy world. Watch her learn all the ins and outs of managing not only the dance industry but her relationships with other students, competitors, family, and friends. More importantly, watch her manage her relationship with herself through a decade of dance.

Download or read book Back Onto the Dance Floor written by Nikolaus Annemarie (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Back Onto the Dance Floor written by Annemarie Nikolaus and published by Quick, Quick, Slow - Lietzense. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friederike Lagrange dares to return to the dance floor together with a colleague after sixteen years. But then her husband wants to dance again with her, too..

Download or read book Travels on the Dance Floor written by Grevel Lindop and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's journey into the heart of salsa, in Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America. Follow Grevel Lindop's vivid and evocative account of his search for the roots of Afro-Latin-American dance.

Download or read book Worlds of social dancing written by James Nott and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at dance as a ‘social world’, the book explores the social and personal relationships established in encounters on dance floors on all continents. It also acknowledges the impact of radio and (sound) film as well as the contribution of dance teachers, musicians and other entertainment professionals to the making of the new dance culture.

Download or read book Trouble on the Dance Floor written by Joey London and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a 50 year old straight guy that that dances nearly nude in a really hot gay club with people half my age. I have been a nightclub dancer for over 25 years and have developed a style called Emergent Dance.Being 50, I'm always telling myself that I have to quit clubbing. However, I made a deal with myself that I could continue my club dancing for one more year if I wrote a book that tells what I've learned over the past quarter century.This book reads like Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. It is a memoir of spending the 50th year of my life on the nightclub dance floor, intermixed with the findings of my quixotic quest to discover why we must dance.As the memoir picks up with my 50th birthday, I begin detailing what emergent nightclub dancing is and how the experience can be conjured. I continue with all sorts of practical tips that will help you unleash the hidden primal dancer within you.Much like Pirsig, I become maniacally possessed with my quest to find the essential reason for dancing. This quest lead me to many astounding discoveries. The book ventures into the world of archetypes, evolutionary biology, theory of mind, psychopharmacology, and many other interesting topics.The bottom line is that there is an amazing dancer locked within you. You need only to unleash it. This book can help.If nothing else, you should get a kick out of reading my hilarious, salacious, and often heart rending tales as the last baby-boomer left standing on the dance floor.Trouble on the Dance Floor is an unusual literary work. It combines raucous tales from the nightclub with hard science and deep philosophy. It is fun and intellectual. You won't regret reading it.

Download or read book The Galaxy is a Dance Floor written by Bianca Lynne Spriggs and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITCHFIELD

Download or read book Dancing Through Life written by Antoinette Benevento and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing. Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life. Some of the tenets Antoinette Benevento lives, dances, and teaches by: -Persistence is a form of beauty -Give yourself permission to begin again--and again and again -If you're not willing to risk falling, you'll never learn to walk (or dance) -Desire is the energy that moves us forward in dance and in life -To dance well and to live fully, body and soul need to work together Building on the ballroom dancing craze that has swept the country, including the popularity of "Dancing with the Stars", this illuminating and highly readable book shows that what you learn on the dance floor can help you dance through life. ANTOINETTE BENEVENTO is co-owner of and National Training Director for the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and a former national ballroom dancing champion. EDWIN DOBB is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and has written for numerous other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Discover.