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Annick Press
Language
English
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"I don't even know if I'm following the choreo. I'm moving without worrying about being good, without obsessing about getting every move right. All the frustration and disappointment I jammed down every time I was passed over for a role, all of my yearning to be seen bursts out of me in a torrent of unfettered emotion. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when her mental health suffers after she's denied yet another opportunity at her elite academy because...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When her return home to Graybridge coincides with the murder of her friend Kara, former professional ballerina Esmé Foster, haunted by a past tragedy, must shine a light into the darkness to learn what really happened in the woods the night Kara died to bring this nightmare to an end"--
Author
Language
English
Description
At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her "inspirational" role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn't belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness...
Author
Series
Detective Miller novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that many Highland dances use swords to prove their strength? Or that bharatanatyam dancers perform with bells around their ankles and red dye on their hands and feet? There's a whole world of dances out there! Told with simple language and shown with vivid photographs, A World of Dancers is perfect for emerging readers curious about the fascinating and varied dancers worldwide"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Adele Astaire was a glittering, glamorous star, dancing with her brother, Fred, endearing herself to audiences from New York to London. But although she is toasted by royalty and beloved by countless fans, Adele Astaire has dreams of a loving husband and a houseful of children. And when she meets Lord Charles Cavendish, her wishes may just come true, but at what cost? Ever since Violet Wood could walk she's wanted to dance on the London stage. Befriended...
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English
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In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the "Big Apple Bomber" and may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
8) Carmen
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young dancer is forced to flee the Mexican desert when her mother is murdered. She joins up with a soldier recovering from PTSD and the two begin a passionate love affair in this evocative drama.
9) Of an age
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Of An Age is set in the summer of 1999 as a seventeen-year-old Serbian-born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
10) Chita: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The wildly entertaining memoir of the legendary Chita Rivera -- multi-Tony Award winner, Kennedy Center honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom." --
11) Boomi's boombox
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on the life of Alicia Alonso, a world-renowned prima ballerina from Cuba. Alicia was born to dance. From the moment she slips on pointe shoes for the first time, she's determined to become a professional ballerina. A few years later, Alicia moves from Cuba to the United States to follow her dreams. Then, Alicia begins to lose her sight. How can a ballerina dance if she can't see where she's going? Stuck in bed and only able...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated biography of Savion Glover, tap dancer and choreographer, that shows how his love of music, dance, and self-expression as a young boy sets him on the path to change how people see tap dancing"--
14) White nights
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union years ago, finds himself back in the motherland--trapped--thanks to an emergency airplane landing. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by 'persuading' him to become Russian again.
15) Hula: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history. In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to...
Author
Series
Daughters of war volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
521 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request - to find her vanished sister, who...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 482 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Alexei Ratmansky, the most significant, international classical choreographer of our day, written with his full cooperation and the support of American Ballet Theatre, the company of which he is resident choreographer"--
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