Download or read book Conversations with a Golden Ballerina written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Side of Perfect written by Mariko Turk and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sarah Dessen and Mary H.K. Choi, this lyrical and emotionally driven novel follows Alina, a young aspiring dancer who suffers a devastating injury and must face a world without ballet—as well as the darker side of her former dream. Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg—and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it. After a summer healing (translation: eating vast amounts of Cool Ranch Doritos and binging ballet videos on YouTube), she is forced to trade her pre-professional dance classes for normal high school, where she reluctantly joins the school musical. However, rehearsals offer more than she expected—namely Jude, her annoyingly attractive castmate she just might be falling for. But to move forward, Alina must make peace with her past and face the racism she experienced in the dance industry. She wonders what it means to yearn for ballet—something so beautiful, yet so broken. And as broken as she feels, can she ever open her heart to someone else? Touching, romantic, and peppered with humor, this debut novel explores the tenuousness of perfectionism, the possibilities of change, and the importance of raising your voice.
Download or read book The Night Swimmer written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Michigan Alumnus written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Download or read book The Humpback of Lodz written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Chicago, Warsaw and London in the 1980's. A story of intrigue, romance and suspense. A man and woman each search for their own identity. He is a divorced Jewish American law professor. She is Catholic, Polish, a younger woman, an Economics professor and a member of the Solidarnosc underground on the run from the police. A love story mixed with hate, fear and revulsion in the dark shadow of the Holocaust. A man and woman caught in the net of martial law and running from the police and each other.
Download or read book A Lawyer s Notes written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of fiction, 14 stories published in 2008, by the author of The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, 29 stories published in 2005. Komie is also the author of The Judge's Chambers, 1983, the first collection of short fiction ever published by the American Bar Association in its more than 100 year history. He is the author of The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. Komie has practiced law in Chicago and Deerfield, Illinois for over 50 years.
Download or read book In the Fear Zone written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of 13 stories involves relationships that range from seduction, love, and loneliness, to suicide and violence--a reflection of the lives of human beings.
Download or read book The American Bookstore of Paris written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Freund, a retired bookseller from San Francisco who buys an English-language bookstore in Paris, is troubled when he discovers the complicity of the French police in the murder of 76,000 Jews, including 11,000 Jewish children.
Download or read book The Silhouette Maker of Copenhagen written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal Fiction of Lowell B Komie written by Lowell B. Komie and published by Swordfish Chicago Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Louis Auchincloss collections of the 1950s and 1960s, there have been few collections of legal short fiction written by a practicing American lawyer outside the genres of crime and legal thriller fiction. Here is a new collection by Lowell B. Komie of Chicago, published to celebrate his fiftieth year in the practice of law. Lowell B. Komie's first collection of short stories, The Judge's Chambers, was published by the American Bar Association in 1983. It was the first collection of fiction published by the ABA in its more than 100-year history. His second collection, The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories, published by Swordfish Chicago in 1995, won the Carl Sandburg Award for fiction from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. This new collection of twenty-nine stories, The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, centered in Chicago, brings together many of the stories in those collections with new stories that have been published since the earlier volumes, the latest having been written in 2004.
Download or read book Being a Ballerina written by Gavin Larsen and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A look inside a dancer’s world Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer’s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist. Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly. In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of. Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances. Working as a ballerina was shocking and scary at first, she says, recalling unexpected injuries, leaps of faith, and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted—but full of enormously rewarding moments. Larsen also reflects candidly on her difficult decision to retire at age 35. An ideal read for aspiring dancers, Larsen’s memoir will also delight experienced dance professionals and fascinate anyone who wonders what it takes to live a life dedicated to the perfection of the art form.
Download or read book The Legal Studies Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Animal Machine written by Eleni Sikelianos and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.
Download or read book Ballet Class written by Melissa R. Klapper and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking social history that takes seriously the experiences of the countless everyday people who pursued recreational ballet, Ballet Class: An American History explores the growth of this now quintessential extracurricular activity as it became an integral part of American childhood across borders of gender, class, race, and sexuality.
Download or read book The Golden Dancer written by Cyril Hume and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Choreographers written by Svetlana McLee Grody and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains interviews with a dozen choreographers on and about their technical approach to choreography.
Download or read book Smack That a conversation written by Rhiannon Faith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smack That (a conversation) documents a participatory performance created with and performed by survivors of domestic abuse. Endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith shines a light on this complex subject in an empowering performance highlighting human resilience. Beverly is having a party and you are one of her guests. There are games, drinks, shared conversation, energetic dance and heartbreaking moments as she bravely gives a raw and honest account of surviving an abusive relationship. Each member of the all-female cast, a close-knit group of non-performers and dance artists, fearlessly takes on the persona of Beverly to convey turbulent, real experiences. The unusual setting creates a safe space for them to reveal the challenges they have faced and celebrate their endurance with the audience. Faith's work with a support group at charity Safer Places underpins this show, which seeks to raise social consciousness around domestic abuse by supporting women to openly talk about it. The book also includes descriptions of the dances included in the piece, documenting the work, but also allowing it to be re-interpreted in future.
