Download or read book THE POI DANCE A Maori Legend written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 466 In this 466th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of "The Poi Dance – A Maori Legend”. ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, out of the semi-darkness of the whare-puni (house hall) a shrill voice is heard ringing, and soon is accompanied by other voices and by clapping of hands, beating time for a poi-dance. Discordantly the first voice pierces the bustle, and laughter there is, and moving and shifting, to make room for the dancers, for the girls and the young women. Graceful figures dressed in piu-pius come forward, coyly and laughing, with whirling of pois, taking up their positions, and all is clamour of getting ready for an amusement, highly enjoyed by spectators and dancers. So what is a Poi and what is the Legend out of which the Poi dance was created? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out! NOTE: In Māori mythology Hawaiki is the place where Io, the supreme being, created the world and its first people. It is the place from which each person comes, and it is where each will return after death. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIES Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. It is our hope that in looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this activity, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES at http://bit.ly/2GKeVdI 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. =========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children’s stories, Children’s Books, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Tiki, Rangi-nui, Te marama, moon, Hine-nui-te-po, the Great Mother of Nature, Hawaiki, action, quest, achieve, , amusement, ancestors, Antarctica, , applause, arms, back-bending, beautiful, bending, blackness, breasts, chorus, clapping, clock-work, Cloud, create, dancers, destroy, Enjoyment, eruptions, Europeans, expanse, Fiji, flax-strings, foxes, girls, maidens, , graceful, happiness, heroes, Hine-te-haka, hips, islands, Kermadec, limbs, Mahiku-Rangi, maiden, mankind, Maori, Matapo, Melanesia, Ngawai, North, Pacific Ocean, piu-pius, poi-dance, Polynesia, rhythmical, semi-darkness, slapping, Sun, Sur, Tai-o-Rehua, Te-ika-a-Maui, Tohungas, Tradition, voices, volcanic, waves, whare-puni, wisdom, wolves, fairy tales for kids, around the world, nursery rhymes, fairy tales story, fairy tales book, short fairy tales

Download or read book Fire Dancer written by Micheala Lynn and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still naïve in many ways from her sheltered upbringing, Sarah wants to shed her goodie-two-shoes image. She wants to live life, not let it pass her by. That’s why she enjoys the company of her cousin Skye so much. Skye lives life to the absolute fullest and Sarah wants to be more like her. Even the fact that Skye is gay is fascinating, albeit frightening as well. Sarah has never found any man attractive. But she’s pretty sure that’s because her family is constantly attempting to fix her up with every eligible single man in the church in the hopes of making an honest woman of her. The family pressure is building and at the age of twenty-eight, it’s getting harder and harder to reject each new suitor. But what is she to do? There doesn’t seem to be anyone who can even remotely light a spark in her heart. That is until she meets Jewel Black, a fire dancer who goes by the stage name Enigma…

Download or read book Fifteenth century Dance and Music Choreographic descriptions with concordances of variants written by A. William Smith and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1: Treatises and music ; vol. 2: choreographic descriptions with concordances of variants.

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Download or read book Dancing Indigenous Worlds written by Jacqueline Shea Murphy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she shows how dance artists communicate Indigenous ways of being, as well as generate a political force, engaging Indigenous understandings and histories. Following specific dance works over time, Shea Murphy interweaves analysis, personal narrative, and written contributions from multiple dance artists, demonstrating dance’s crucial work in asserting and enacting Indigenous worldviews and the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples. As Shea Murphy asserts, these dance-making practices can not only disrupt the structures that European colonization feeds upon and strives to maintain, but they can also recalibrate contemporary dance. Based on more than twenty years of relationship building and research, Shea Murphy’s work contributes to growing, and largely underreported, discourses on decolonizing dance studies, and the geopolitical, gendered, racial, and relational meanings that dance theorizes and negotiates. She also includes discussions about the ethics of writing about Indigenous knowledge and peoples as a non-Indigenous scholar, and models approaches for doing so within structures of ongoing reciprocal, respectful, responsible action.

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Download or read book Fire Dancers in Thailand s Tourism Industry written by Tiffany Rae Pollock and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire dancers in the ever-changing scene. Rather than pursuing the common notion that tourism industries are exploitative enterprises that oppress workers, Tiffany Rae Pollock centers the perspectives of fire artists themselves, who view the industry as simultaneously generative and destructive. Dancers reveal how they employ affect to navigate their lives, art, and labor in this context, showcasing how affect is not only a force that acts on people but also is used and shaped by social actors toward their own ends. Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry highlights men as affective laborers, investigating how they manage the eroticization of their identities and the intersections of art and labor in tourist economies. Exploring moments of performance and everyday life, Pollock examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and communities in Thailand's tourism industry.

Download or read book Dance written by Tara Jahn-Werner and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous book presents the broad spectrum of ballet and dance historically in this country - where it has come from, what has influenced the art-form, who has been involved, and who are the present movers and shakers. It's beautiful to look at, with striking photos and ephemera, attractive poster designs, programme covers plus illustrations. There's great information and anecdotes on personalities, plus interesting 'facts' in separate breakout boxes. Its themes include the influence of overseas companies on dance in New Zealand from 1913 to the present; the advent of a national identity with the establishment of the Royal New Zealand Ballet; the emergence of modern dance in the 1930s and the contemporary dance scene today. Each chapter features a discussion on dance styles, the vigour of the artistic personalities involved and the social milieu in which they operated. A very thorough and lively examination of the dance scene in New Zealand.

Download or read book Maori Music written by Mervyn McLean and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field work that yielded some 1300 recorded songs, hundreds of pages of interviews with singers, and numerous eye-witness accounts. The work is illustrated throughout with photos and music examples.

Download or read book World Music Latin and North America Caribbean India Asia and Pacific written by Simon Broughton and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Download or read book Dancing Ancient and Modern written by Ethel Lucy Urlin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dancing With Danger written by Kimberly Griggs and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author Kimberly Griggs comes a hula-va Hawaiian mystery! What's a Southern Belle to do when she dreams of being a hula dancer? Move to Hawaii, of course! Native Georgian Ruby Bell has her work cut out for her finding her niche among hip-swaying dancers of Kauai. But when she creates Hula Fit, a unique fusion of fitness and Hawaiian culture, she lands herself a job at the premier Aloha Lagoon Resort and Spa. Her class sparks attention from locals and vacationers alike, making Ruby feel she's finally found her bliss. Unfortunately things go from delightful to downright deadly when Ruby discovers her new friend, Phoebe, strangled by a coconut bra in the back of Ruby's studio! With the local police investigating on "island time," Ruby fears it's up to her to find a killer, save her studio's reputation, and bring justice to her friend's memory. Navigating through a maze of deceit and betrayal, Ruby uncovers a cast of suspects more colorful than an island sunset, including a bodybuilder ex-boyfriend with a volatile temper, a troupe of senior citizens caught at a clothing-optional pool party, a jealous rival, an awkward admirer, and even the hunky owner of the local Smoothie Hut who seems to have his eye on Ruby. Between blackmail, deception, and a mysterious box of incriminating photos, Ruby finds herself tangled in a deadly dance. Can she hula her way through the shadows and unmask the killer... before the music stops for good? What critics are saying: "I LOVE this series, and anytime I can open one of these books and escape to the coast of Kauai in Hawaii and hang out at the Aloha Lagoon Resort, I am going to do it!!!" ~ Cozy Mystery Book Reviews "The whole series is a marvelous tropical treat...Join in!" ~ Kings River Life Magazine "Whether this is your first Aloha Lagoon Mystery or your fifteenth, you are in for a rollicking good time!" ~InD'Tale Magazine "This cozy series will hook you so you’ll want to read all that came before, as I do." ~ Book Review Crew About Aloha Lagoon: There's trouble in paradise... Welcome to Aloha Lagoon, one of Hawaii's hidden treasures. A little bit of tropical paradise nestled along the coast of Kauai, this resort town boasts luxurious accommodation, friendly island atmosphere...and only a slightly higher than normal murder rate. While mysterious circumstances may be the norm on our corner of the island, we're certain that our staff and Lagoon natives will make your stay in Aloha Lagoon one you will never forget! Visit us at alohalagoonmysteries.com Rating: This story does not contain any graphic violence, language, or sexual encounters. Its rating would be similar to PG-13 or what you would find on a Hallmark Channel movie or TV series.

Download or read book Asian and Pacific Dance written by Committee on Research in Dance and published by New York : Committee on Research in Dance. This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Zealand the Dear Old Maori Land written by Frances Brewer Lysnar and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of interesting facts about New Zealand, "The Dear Old Maori Land," also the legendary accounts and descriptions of Maori Life and Customs, and the mysterious migration of the intrepid Polynesian Vikings across the uncharted seas of the Pacific Ocean, have been gathered from various sources and put together with the earnest desire of making these "Fortunate Isles" more widely and better known."

Download or read book La Meri and Her Life in Dance written by Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing biography details the life and work of world dance pioneer La Meri (1899–1988). An American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer, La Meri was ahead of her time in championing cross-cultural dance performances and education, yet she is almost totally forgotten today. In La Meri and Her Life in Dance, Nancy Ruyter introduces readers to a visionary artist who played a pivotal role in dance history. Born in Texas as Russell Meriwether Hughes, La Meri toured throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s, immersing herself in different dance traditions at a time when few American dancers explored styles outside their own. She learned about Indian dance culture from the celebrated Uday Shankar, studied belly dancing with the Moroccan sultan’s top dancer, and took flamenco lessons in Spain. La Meri spread awareness and enjoyment of the world’s myriad forms of expression before it was common for performing artists from these countries to tour internationally. Ruyter describes how La Meri founded the Ethnologic Dance Center in New York City, choreographed innovative works based on various dance cultures for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and other venues, and wrote widely on the styles and techniques of international dance genres. This long-overdue book illustrates that the popularity of world dance today owes much to the trailblazing efforts of La Meri.

Download or read book New Zealand M ori Word Encyclopedia written by Sally-Anne Lambert and published by WE International Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful encyclopedia for anyone interested in Maori language. The 830 pages are broken into parts: Topically indexed dictionary, Grammar keywords, Syllable interpretation, New linguistic terms, plus many others.