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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of theatrical and participatory dance, although these two categories are not always completely separate; both may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, or sacred/liturgical. Other forms of human movement are sometimes …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …
sing of little Ann, underneath the frying pan, dance the film Ladybug, Ladybug where children suffocate …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …
collaborator – with contemporaries in literature, music, dance, and the visual arts, but also as a reader, auditor …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English
From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …
possess. It’s a vicious and increasingly energetic dance. The two fighters continue to exchange punches … exchange of right hands. Modest and Tiga continue to dance, moving in and out, side to side, and up and down … what seemed to be a form of loosely choreographed dance or funky mili- tary exercise. 39 CANADASome people … themselves, step back, and resume their careful dance. 56 TIGA’S TALEWith more circling, bobbing, weaving …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 25 June 2024 English
A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale during the tumultuous ’60s.“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? …
matters. It’s not easy to choreograph that kind of dance. It’s just about hell. Slow down, speed up, hurry …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English
Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …
creative forms of activism such as change-oriented dance and theater. She has addressed international and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …
David and Rosemary Booth. 146 18 A fancy-dress dance at Government House, 29 December 1938. David and … 52-122. 318 59 Members of the Uncle Tim’s Barn Dance Troupe popular vOcm radio show in action. Nara … Biddy O’Toole with the popular Uncle Tim’s Barn Dance Troupe and was renowned for her rendition of The … a fire that started during a Saturday evening dance at the Knights of Colum- bus Hostel in St John …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 June 2024 English
In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for …
such as “The Ipana Troubadors” or “National Barn Dance.” But it was almost always Sun- day that they visited …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English
Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …
organs, parts, and systems cooperate to make a body dance. Often, we seek to avoid this level of complexity …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English
An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …
weed, but like something going around at a school dance. Something’s happening to my left — the first attack … white skin. Everything about her seems to be a dance between black and white. The creamy white silk …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 June 2024 English
Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …
Haidas; mountain goat horn spoons, raven rattles, dance headdresses, and oolachen (candlefish or fathomfish …