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Simon Whaley

Wendy Garofoli Zamora

Hip-hop dance is made up of breaking, popping, locking, krumping, and so much more. Before you head out to the dance floor, learn some basic moves of each style. Whether you want to dance with a crew or battle other dancers, these easy-to-learn steps will have you busting a move.

Kenneth King

Book DescriptionA treasure trove of writings by America's only dancing philosopher.

Book Description Johan Persson was a principal with the Royal Ballet until a knee injury ended his dancing career. A talented photographer, Johan turned to his camera to combine his two loves-dance and photography. Focusing on his colleagues and friends as they rehearse, relax and perform, he has created an intimate and elegant portrait of the internationally renowned company at work during the 2002a??03 -season.

Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. These first three novels in the sequence follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles which stand between them and the "Acceptance World".

Chapters: 2pm, T.i.p., Last for One, Expression Crew, Gamblerz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 2PM is a South Korean boy band, originally a seven-member group, but currently consisting of six members due to sudden withdrawal of leader Jaebeom following an Internet controversy in September 2009. They are managed by JYP Entertainment. The current members are Junsu, Junho, Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung and Chansung. 2PM is one of the two subgroups branched out from the eleven-member (before Jaebeom's departure) boy band One Day, the other being 2AM. They debuted with the song "10 Jeom Manjeome 10 Jeom" (10 10, lit. 10 Points Out of 10 Points), which showcased their acrobatic and b-boy dance styles. They achieved their first #1 song with "Again

Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz

We will find ourselves in a complex world of repetitions, reproductions, mirrors, copies, variations and reconstructions. A post-modern art playground, where the distance between citation and plagiarism is measured with one's own possibilities of shifting perspectives. As representatives of Homo Ludens, we will play with our perception and check how far one can go in (ab)using the pieces of the others without violating the copyrights. We will have glimpses of works from the famous Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibition "Cut film as found object in contemporary video" and look at the dance pieces of great conceptual choreographers - Jerome Bel and Xavier le Roy.

Suzanne Aumack

Book DescriptionHula dancing is entering the mainstream as it earns recognition as a fun, innovative form of exercise. This kit comes with a 32-page instructions book, wooden finger castanets, a lei, and flower hair ornament.

Felicia M. McCarren

Jennifer Homans

One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. Ballet has been shaped by the Renaissance and Classicism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Bolshevism, Modernism, and the Cold War. Apollo’s Angels is a groundbreaking worka??the first cultural history of ballet ever written, lavishly illustrated and beautifully told. Ballet is unique: It has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. The steps are never just the stepsa??they are a living, breathing...