by F Lane | Jul 2, 2018 | Books, Clearance, Walmart
What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap’s origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing and dances brought from Africa by slaves....
by F Lane | Jun 22, 2018 | Books, Clearance, Walmart
Carlos Acosta, the Cuban dancer considered to be one of the world’s greatest performers, fearlessly depicts his journey from adolescent troublemaker to international superstar in his captivating memoir, No Way Home.Carlos was just another kid from the slums of...
by F Lane | Jun 15, 2018 | Books, Clearance, Walmart
Cholly Atkins’s career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the...
by F Lane | Jun 8, 2018 | Books, Clearance
For more than 400 years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, “Apollo’s Angels”–the first cultural history of ballet ever...
by F Lane | Jun 1, 2018 | Books, Clearance, Walmart
Ballet and Modern Dance meets the needs of both students and inquisitive dance goers through a narrative focused on the development of Western theatrical dance from the Renaissance to the first decades of the 21st century, incorporating the most recent scholarship and...
by F Lane | May 25, 2018 | Books, Clearance, Walmart
The editors of this anthology analyze a broad range of themes and dance styles in order to examine how dance has helped to shape American identity. This volume focuses on dance and its social, cultural, and political constructs. “Unpredictable. Counterintuitive....