Download or read book SWING SHIFT DANCING and SEDUCTION written by T. Roderick McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I met Harrison Schooler ("Harry"), he was not in good health. His careless life had been driven by ambition, greed and drugs. Fearing an imminent death, Harry wanted nothing more than to write his memoirs. But he was a talker, not a writer. Harry soon abandoned his written memoir project. Friends said that his recollections contained too much bragging. His ego, said some, was like trying to stuff too much pimento into too small an olive. Harry began his working life as a "gandy-dancer," what Alaskans called railroad laborers. But Alaska offered Harry too much cold and too few hot women. So, in the midst wartime (1943), Harry came to L.A. looking for a draft-protected job. He found work at Lockheed Aircraft. But he wanted more than a blue-collar job. When fellow shift workers asked for volunteers to help them stage a monthly dance for other workers, Harry jumped at the chance But he quickly disagreed with his would-be sponsors. Harry Schooler had his own ideas and so struck out on his own. Soon, his weekly dances generated fame, fortune, and upward mobility for Harry. Yet amidst his success was the loss of his relationship with his mother, Nina. She had kept the family fed by working as a prostitute. Harry's dance hall successes gave him an almost limitless money and as many women as he wanted. Yet his romantic life was hardly a success--eight marriages and countless one-night stands topped Harry's resume. The one constant was that Harry never remembered their names--except one named Patricia. She changed Harry's life forever, but not in a good way.Harry thought she was 25 years of age. Actually, she was 17. L.A, Police were always gunning for Harry, and now, they had something they could take to court. Harry was tried, convicted and jailed as a statutory rapist. As friends disappeared and alienation set in, could Harry ever be reconciled with his mother? The answer is both heart-rending and tear-inducng.
Download or read book Swing Dance written by Scott Cupit and published by Jacqui Small. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all things vintage enjoying a boom worldwide, swing dancing has well and truly swung back into fashion. From vintage festivals and tea dances to weekend socials and hundreds of weekly classes held around the world, multiple forms of the dance that was created in 1930s Harlem by Frankie Manning are growing ever more popular. Swing Dance explores the vibrant contemporary swing-dancing scene, looking at the different dance styles and the associated culture, community and fashion. Illustrated with vintage and contemporary photography, as well as specially commissioned step-by-step guides, it provides everything you need to know, whether you fancy kicking up your heels in the Charleston or mastering the Lindy Hop ‘swing out’. The four major dance styles are covered – Charleston, Collegiate Shag, Balboa and Lindy Hop, including the Strolls, which are guaranteed to fill the dance floor. Each chapter begins with an overview of the fascinating evolution of the dance style. ‘Get the Look’ examines the fashions for guys and girls, including hair and make-up, and a clothing, shoes and accessories checklist, while ‘The Music’ suggests the top ten tunes to practise to. Then follows a breakdown of the basic step patterns upon which the dance is built, and a guide to some of the key moves. There are also insider tips from old-timers and today’s leading swing dancers as well as fun, easy-to-follow page-embedded video demonstrations produced exclusively for the book and accessible via scannable QR codes.
Download or read book Swing Dancing written by Tamara Stevens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling a riveting true story of the emergence and development of an American icon, this book traces swing dancing from its origins to its status as a modern-day art form. From its unlikely origins in the African slave trade, one of the saddest chapters of American history, swing dance emerged as a celebration of the soul. Swing is now recognized around the globe as a joyous partnered dance, uniquely Afro-American in origin and an American treasure. This book examines how the original swing style of the 1920s, the Lindy Hop, branched out and evolved with the changing dynamics of popular culture, paralleling the development of the nation. Swing Dancing covers the dance through the years of minstrelsy, the jazz age, the big band era, bebop, and the decline of partnered dancing in the 1960s. Swing experts and instructors Tamara and Erin Stevens have combined a compelling historic examination of swing dance with an assortment of riveting personal interviews and photographic documentation to create a comprehensive reference book on this important art form.
Download or read book Swing Dancing written by Simon Selmon and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing dance with grace, style, and skill when you know the steps.
Download or read book Swing Dancing written by Simon Selmon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swing Your Partners written by Durward Maddocks and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dance of Death written by Suzanne Walther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification written by Cristina F. Rosa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga . Cristina Rosa its presence across distinct and specific realms: samba-de-roda (samba-in-a-circle) dances, capoeira angola games, and the repertoire of Grupo Corpo.
Download or read book The American Peoples Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dancefilm written by Erin Brannigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancefilm traces some of the most significant collaborations between dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers, and presents new models of cinematic movement that are both historically informed and thoroughly interdisciplinary.
Download or read book Bodies of Sound written by Susan C. Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as ’bodies of sound’. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels. In Part I: Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part II: Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part III: (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part IV: Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation.
Download or read book Hollywood s Wartime Woman written by Michael Renov and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving History Dancing Cultures written by Ann Dils and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history -- ideal for the classroom.
Download or read book The Black Dancing Body written by B. Gottschild and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.
Download or read book Seducing Janey written by Sherri Hayes and published by Sherri Hayes. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion, mystery, and undeniable chemistry. Detective Janey Davis is no stranger to solving perplexing cases, but nothing could have prepared her for what awaits in the charming town of Liberty, a place that appears straight out of a magazine. Sent two hours away to investigate a murder, Janey quickly discovers that the case is not the only thing that will keep her on her toes. The real challenge lies in resisting the allure of her new partner, Kyle Reed. Kyle, a seasoned sheriff's deputy and an ex-Army veteran, is determined to crack the case wide open with Janey's help. Little did he know that their partnership would ignite a fiery chemistry that neither of them can ignore. As they spend more time together, their connection deepens, and the lines between duty and desire blur. Will they give in to their passions, risking everything for a chance at love? Seducing Janey is a sizzling hot contemporary romance from Sherri Hayes. If you like long distance relationships, smoking hot chemistry, and a touch of mystery, then this law enforcement romance is a must read.
Download or read book Improvision written by Simon Shaw-Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western art music (classical music). However, the musical form that was abstract art's true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African Americans, but which had a profound impact on European artistic sensibilities. Both art forms share creative techniques of rhythm, groove, gesture and improvisation. This book sets out to theorize affinities and connections between, and across, two seemingly diverse cultural phenomena.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance written by Dollie Henry and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and creatives to enjoy both recreationally and professionally. The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance offers a practical and uncomplicated overview to the multi-layered history, practices and development of jazz dance as a creative and artistic dance form. It covers the incredible history and lineage of jazz dance; the innovators, choreographers and dance creatives of the genre; specifics of jazz aesthetic, steps and styles; a detailed breakdown of a practical jazz dance warm-up and technical exercises; creative frameworks to support development of jazz dance expression and aesthetic; performance and improvisation; jazz music and musical interpretation, and finally, choreographing and creating jazz works. With over 230 colour photos and a wealth of tips and advice, this new book will be an ideal reading companion for dancers of all abilities, dance teachers, choreographers as well as all jazz dance enthusiasts.
