Buster and the Dance Contest


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Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father visit an international food festival in Wisconsin, where he meets six girls who will be performing a traditional Hmong dance.




Postcards from Buster: Buster and the Dance Contest (L2)


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Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father visit an international food festival in Wisconsin, where he meets six girls who will be performing a traditional Hmong dance.




Buster and the Dance Contest


Book Description

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father visit an international food festival in Wisconsin, where he meets six girls who will be performing a traditional Hmong dance.




Performance Anthology


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Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.




Air Plays


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In a sampling of stage and screen-ready projects, T K Wallace shares fourteen episodes within four sections. In the roadhouse story, Just Off the Highway, Wallace offers insight into the lives of diverse characters who conduct as much daytime community business as they do nightly drinking and dancing. In Free Lance Writer, Wallace shares one-act plays set in Central Park West where a young hawker sells fiction and nonfiction stories for a living, his efforts boosted by an interesting ploy to lure his buyers. The Genie Journals offers an intriguing idea that genies can improve humankind by granting worthy wishes. In Crockers, Wallace profiles a low-country family comedy set along the Carolina line where boiled peanuts and bottles of moonshine help make each day a little better. Air Plays is a volume of entertaining writing ventures that profile eccentric characters creatively addressing life, each in their own whimsical way.




The Adventures of Belle and Buster


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Belle loves to dance and dreams of becoming a famous ballerina. Belle needs a partner to dance with but no boys do ballet and she cannot dance alone. Buster is a Street Dance, Hip-Hop dancer and can do lots of tricks. Belle is not keen on Buster’s dancing but after showing some of his moves, Belle agrees to give him the chance. Follow their story from meeting, their first class together, travelling to London to meet the famous dancers Jazz and Domino and perform in the top London competition – Bunnies Got To Dance. Will they win after Buster makes a huge mistake.......? Where will they go next.......?




The Publishers Weekly


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How to Get the Best Education Possible for Your Child, Kindergarten-6th Grade


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Your children are your most prized and valued possessions. In this parent's guide the author presents step-by-step instructions to aid you and your child in making education a priority and insure a successful educational experience for you both. The workbook is divided into distinct sections.The first section will help you make an intelligent decision about what school your child should attend and steps to take that will help your child find success in school. The next sections are skills your child should master in kindergarten through sixth grade. There are also tables for you to track your answers and space to write any questions, answers or thoughts that arise.This workbook is a tool that you can use to help your child achieve in school and in life. With an instrument like this at your disposal you will be empowered and instructed to be confidently involved in the educational setting. This workbook poses the questions and provides the answers needed to prepare your child for the 21st century. This book is useful for: Parents, Teachers, Principles, PTA's (Parents Teachers Associations), School Administrators, School Boards & School Districts, Elected Officials and many more. This valuable handbook comes with a vibrant full-color paperback cover and bold black & white interior pages.




Feuding Fan Dancers


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"Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling." —Chicago Tribune Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance. Nearly one hundred years later, both women come alive again.




Ska


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Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there were the men and women who created ska music, a blend of jazz, American rhythm and blues, and the indigenous music of the Caribbean. This book tells the story of ska music and its development from Jamaica to England, where the music took on a distinctively different tone, and finally to the rest of the world. Through the words of legendary artists, gleaned from more than a decade of interviews, the story of ska music is finally told by those who were there.