Book Description
Describes the circus and the ballet of fifty elephants and dancers choreographed by George Ballanchine in 1942.
Author : Leda Schubert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781596430754
Describes the circus and the ballet of fifty elephants and dancers choreographed by George Ballanchine in 1942.
Author : Penny McKinlay
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 9780711211308
When Esmeralda the elephant wants to be a ballerina, Mummy's not so sure - after all, elephants don't do ballet. But Esmeralda always gets what she wants, so she joins a ballet class and proves that elephants can do ballet.
Author : Tess Uriza Holthe
Publisher : Crown
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0676806732
“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens.” Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, in ways both magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance is set in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. Through the eyes of three narrators, thirteen-year-old Alejandro Karangalan, his spirited older sister Isabelle, and Domingo, a passionate guerilla commander, we see how ordinary people find hope for survival where none seems to exist. While the Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle together for survival in the cellar of a house, they tell magical stories to one another based on Filipino myth that transport the listeners from the chaos of the war around them and give them new resolve to continue fighting. Outside the safety of their refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerilla fighters wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war. This stunning debut novel celebrates with richness and depth the spirit of the Filipino people and their fascinating story and marks the introduction of an author who will join the ranks of writers such as Arundhati Roy, Manil Suri, and Amy Tan.
Author : Katy Flint
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0711249520
The next title in this best-selling sound series reimagines Carnival of the Animals, one of the most famous suites of music for children, by Camille Saint-Saens.
Author : Theresa Heine
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781841489179
Listen along with Ravi to Grandfather's captivating stories about India, where the sun is like a ferocious tiger and monsoon rains cascade like waterfalls. Notes after the story include facts about India's animals, food, culture and religion, and a simple elephant dance music score. AGES:4 to 10 years ILLUSTRATIONS: Colour
Author : John Robert Allman
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593181166
A lively and encouraging picture book celebrating boys who love to dance, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. Boys who love to dance are center stage in this encouraging, positive, rhyming picture book about guys who love to pirouette, jeté, and plié. Created in partnership with the American Ballet Theatre and with the input of their company's male dancers, here is a book that shows ballet is for everyone. Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, this book subtly seeks to address the prejudice toward boys and ballet by showing the skill, hard work, strength, and smarts is takes to be a dancer. Fun and buoyant illustrations show boys of a variety of ages and ethnicities, making this the ideal book for any boy who loves dance. An afterword with photos and interviews with some of ABT's male dancers completes this empowering and joyful picture book.
Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Elephant and Piggie
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2023-06
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ISBN : 9781529512359
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299221539
Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.
Author : Jan Greenberg
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466818611
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.
Author : Baby Genius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1501113615
Frankie the Elephant and her friends star in the first-ever Baby Genius ballet recital. Each page includes charming illustrations featuring one little, two little, three little...up to ten little dancing elephants. Readers are invited to count the elephants on each page and to point out interesting details in the illustrations.