Download or read book The Grand Union written by Wendy Perron and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into the "collective genius" of Grand Union and explores their process of deep play. Drawing on hours of archival videotapes, Wendy Perron seeks to understand the ebb and flow of the performances. Includes 65 photographs.

Download or read book Grand Union written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.

Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Dancer written by Wendy Perron and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House. In opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, brief memoirs, blog posts, and contemplations on the choreographic process, she gives readers an up-close, personalized look at dancing as an art form. Dancers, choreographers, teachers, college dance students—and anyone interested in the intersection between dance and journalism—will find Perron’s probing and insightful writings inspiring. Through the Eyes of a Dancer is a nuanced microcosm of dance’s recent globalization and modernization that also provides an opportunity for new dancers to look back on the traditions and styles that preceded their own.

Download or read book Union Clues written by Felicity Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peaceful narrowboat holiday. What could possibly go wrong? Stella doesn't want to hire a narrowboat. She'd much rather be in The Maldives, but her husband Alex has other ideas. Nancy escapes onto the canals when her brilliant music career implodes. She's going back to her roots, but things have changed - maybe too much. Dawn is investigating the most unusual crime in her policing career - committed on the Grand Union Canal under the English summer sun. Trouble, is the victim denies it was even a crime. Join Stella, Nancy and Dawn on their epic journeys into the heart of England's canal network. In this tale of deceit, revenge, self-discovery and boating mishaps, they find friends in the most unlikely places and discover that the canals are not always as tranquil as they appear...

Download or read book Maidens Trip written by Emma Smith and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma sets out with Nanette and Charity on a big adventure- three eighteen-year-old girls, freed from a conventional middle-class background, precipitated into the world of the boating fraternity. Never before had they met such people, the women with plaited hair and gold earrings, the men with choker scarves and darkly sunburnt faces, whole families existing for generation after generation on boats painted the brilliant colours of blue and scarlet, white and glossy black, living hard but undisturbed lives - until the arrival of these incomprehensible young creatures from another planet. Presented with the motor boat Venus and its butty boat, the Ariadne, the three girls embark on their maiden trip. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and, on the return journey south, coal from Coventry; how to navigate hazardous locks in the apparently unceasing rain; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine ticking over and steer through tunnels. They live off kedgeree and fried bread and jam, adopt a kitten, lose their bicycles, laugh and quarrel and get progressively dirtier and tougher as the weeks go by. First published in 1948, Maidens' Trip is a classic memoir of the growth to maturity of three young women in the exceptional circumstances of Britain at war. Informative and fascinating, it breathes new life into England's canals and is vivacious, entertaining and poignant. A pure delight.

Download or read book Run Like Duck written by Mark Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-proclaimed 'fat git' Mark still doesn't know why he suddenly said yes when his mate asked him to go for a run. Three years later, Mark is completing ultramarathons. Follow him as he makes every running mistake possible and guides you from couch through ouch to success! Book jacket.

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Download or read book The Wife of Willesden written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath “Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .” In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, rewrites her mistakes as triumphs, and shares her beliefs on femininity, sexuality, and misogyny with anyone willing to listen. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today.

Download or read book The Union War written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union.

Download or read book Wish You Were Gone written by Kieran Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “captivating thriller full of twists and surprises” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) about what happens when the death of a husband and father isn’t the tragedy everyone believes—perfect for fans of the Netflix original series Dead to Me. Emma Walsh has finally worked up the courage to confront her husband James about his drinking. But James never shows up to meet her as planned, and all her righteous words go unsaid. And unsaid they remain, because the next time Emma sees James, his body lies crumpled amidst the wreckage of his flashy car. In the aftermath of the fatal crash, Emma and her teenage children begin to embrace life without James’s looming, volcanic presence. Buoyed by the support of her two closest friends, she struggles to deal with her grief, complicated by the knowledge that her husband’s legacy as an upstanding business owner and family man shines only because so many people, for so long, were so willing to keep his secrets—secrets that twist into new and unexpected shapes as the mysterious details of his last day of life begin to come to light. A “stylish” (Publishers Weekly) and “delicious” (Booklist) domestic thriller, Wish You Were Gone will keep you guessing “until not just the last page, but the last paragraph” (Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author).

Download or read book Grand Union written by Zadie Smith and published by SALAMANDRA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una deslumbrante colección de relatos nominada a la medalla Carnegie. A través de diversas perspectivas, desde lo histórico y lo actual hasta la más absoluta distopía, Grand Union es una reflexión estimulante y profética sobre el tiempo y el espacio, la identidad y el renacimiento, los legados que acechan nuestro presente y los posibles futuros que amenazan con llegar. Con un despliegue de recursos formales -autoficción, experimentación formal, ciencia ficción, surrealismo,sátira social, parábola y hasta una historia narrada por Dios- al alcance de muy pocos, Grand Union posee una fluidez y una libertad narrativas que recuerdan a una improvisación musical. Demuestra el calibre de una autora capaz de reinventarse con cada nuevo libro. La crítica ha dicho... « Grand Union de Zadie Smith son relatos que van desde lo histórico y lo actual hasta la más absoluta distopía, y componen una reflexión estimulante sobre el tiempo y el espacio, la identidad y el renacimiento. Zadie Smith convierte todo lo que toca en algo fresco y relevante.» Zenda Libros «Estos relatos son brillantes ejercicios de estilo a la vez que implícitos ejercicios de discrepancia y, por descontado, lúdicas enmiendas a latotalidad de nuestro mundo acuciado, veleidoso y frívolo. Grand Union escarba en los motivos de un desengaño del capitalismo feroz que asume y que desperdiga por los diecinueve relatos que se reúnen en el volumen de la mano de un humor ácido y de una visión excéntrica que en ocasiones traen a la memoria algunos textos de El mundo y otros lugares, de Jeanette Winterson. Smith químicamente pura, tan libérrima como siempre, observadora implacable de nuestro condenado mundo, que enjuicia el todo desde su conocimiento de las partes, provocadora y entrañable sabionda, valiente voz estridente que denuncia sin complejos las debilidades que nuestra sociedad muestra, conduciéndonos con la luz de su escritura a la oscura inquietud que padecemos (o que deberíamos padecer).» Babelia, El País «Con una prosa cautivadora, se enfrenta a la raza, la clase, las relaciones y los roles de género, la tecnología y la política en un mundo que se siente cada vez más difícil. Escribe con aguda perspicacia y ofrece un profundo e inteligente comentario social y político sobre nuestro agitado entorno, complejo y dividido.» Esquire «Smith es una experta en el retrato sutil de personajes. [...] Su maestría consiste en eludir el victimismo de unos y otros y volcar en ellos lo más formidable de su ironía compasiva. Una ironía llena de rebeldía pero también de comprensión.» ABC Cultural «Nada escapa a la brillante mirada y la voz inimitable de Zadie Smith, que convierte todo lo que toca en algo fresco y relevante. Con un asombroso despliegue de recursos formales y un ritmo absolutamente original, Grand Union es un nuevo hito de una autora capaz de reinventarse con cada libro.» De lector a lector «Lo mejor de Zadie Smith es su maestría descriptiva, que con pocas pinceladas nos sumerge en el ambiente que quiere reflejar, el retrato de personajes de variada condición --sobre todo los femeninos, que pueblan especialmente estos cuentos--, y un acertado manejo de los diálogos. Grand Union es una excelente oportunidad para acercarnos a uno de los mejores nombres de la literatura europea de hoy.» El Imparcial «Sin duda, estamos en compañía de una de nuestras mejores escritoras contemporáneas.» The Guardian «Varios de los relatos de Grand Union van camino de convertirse en clásicos.» Kirkus

Download or read book Pearson s Canal Companion written by Michael Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.

Download or read book Towards an Imperfect Union written by Dalibor Rohac and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s Europe, deep cracks are showing in the system of political cooperation that was designed to prevent the geopolitical catastrophes that ravaged the continent in the first half of the twentieth century. Europeans are haunted, once again, by the specters of nationalism, fascism, and economic protectionism. Instead of sounding the alarm, many conservatives have become cheerleaders for the demise of the European Union (EU). This compelling book represents the first systematic attempt to justify the European project from a free-market, conservative viewpoint. Although many of their criticisms are justified, Dalibor Rohac contends that Euroskeptics are playing a dangerous game. Their rejection of European integration places them in the unsavory company of nationalists, left-wing radicals, and Putin apologists. Their defense of the nation-state against Brussels, furthermore, is ahistorical. He convincingly shows that the flourishing of democracy and free markets in Europe has gone hand in hand with the integration project. Europe’s pre-EU past, in contrast, was marked by a series of geopolitical calamities. When British voters make their decision in June, they should remember that while Brexit would not be a political or economic disaster for the United Kingdom, it would not solve any of the problems that the “Leavers” associate with EU membership. Worse yet, its departure from the European Union would strengthen the centrifugal forces that are already undermining Europe's ability to solve the multitude of political, economic, and security challenges plaguing the continent today. Instead of advocating for the end of the EU, Rohac argues that conservatives must come to the rescue of the integration project by helping to reduce the EU’s democratic deficit and turning it into an engine of economic dynamism and prosperity. For the author’s video on Brexit, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFReUnO05Fo

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Download or read book For Want of a Nail written by Robert Sobel and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins.

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Download or read book This Very Moment written by Barbara Dilley and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir & teaching handbook of dance movement practices