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Dancing the Deep Hum, One Woman's Ideas about How to Live in a Dancing, Singing Universe

Author : Connie Tyler

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 17,6 MB

Release : 2009-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0615264867

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In Dancing the Deep Hum, Connie Pwll examines the sometimes delightful and sometimes painful lessons she has learned in her sixty-five years of life, and humbly presents some ideas about how to live life joyfully. Weaving in and out between the personal and the public, the individual and the whole - the universe, the infinite, and the here and now, she searches for the definition of that unnamable something that hums, uses her own experiences and other people's stories found in books, film and the media, to suggest a set of principles for living that just might bring us personal happiness while moving us toward a solution to the world's ecological and social justice problems.



Narrating the Everyday: Windows on Life in Central South Africa

Author : Asta Rau

Publisher : UJ Press

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 30,32 MB

Release : 2019-01-01

Category : Travel

ISBN :

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The chapters in this book reflect on the practice of using narratives to understand individual and social reality. They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. Except for two, all the chapters originated from research in the program The Narrative Study of Lives, situated in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Each chapter opens a window on an aspect of everyday life in Central South Africa. Each window displays the capacity of the narrative as a methodological tool in qualitative research to open up better understandings of everyday experience. The chapters also reflect on the epistemological journey towards unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narratives are one of many tools available to sociologists in their quest to understand and interpret meaning. But, when it comes to deep understanding, narratives are particularly effective in opening up more intricate levels of meaning associated with emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences.



Dancing on the Earth

Author : Johanna Leseho

Publisher : Findhorn Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 15,32 MB

Release : 2011-06-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1844094847

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The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therapy can be both empowering and exhilarating. The women’s narratives all share a deep appreciation for the connection between mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions, offering dance as a transformative power of renewing and rebuilding that bond. Both personal and professional, the stories weave a vivid tapestry of lived experiences and insights, balance, and a community healed by dance.



Quick, Before the Music Stops

Author : Janet Carlson

Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Corporation

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 14,85 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Ballroom dancing

ISBN : 9780462099507

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Told with precision, grace and honesty, this book is the tale of one woman s midlife renewal through dance. It shows us how to recognise and celebrate both our strengths and flaws, and how to reignite passion for the everyday. In her 20s, Janet Carlson was a successful competitive ballroom dancer, but she abandoned dancing to raise a family and pursue a more conventional profession and life. 20 years later, she seemed to have it all: two beautiful daughters, a great job, and a handsome, talented husband. Despite all her successes, she felt a terrible void her marriage was deeply troubled, and she was somehow withdrawn in the very midst of her own life. Then, one Valentine s Day her husband gave her ballroom dancing lessons as a gift, and everything changed . . .



Dancing Through Life

Author : Antoinette Benevento

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 50,58 MB

Release : 2007-09-04

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0312370857

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A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing. Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life. Some of the tenets Antoinette Benevento lives, dances, and teaches by: -Persistence is a form of beauty -Give yourself permission to begin again--and again and again -If you're not willing to risk falling, you'll never learn to walk (or dance) -Desire is the energy that moves us forward in dance and in life -To dance well and to live fully, body and soul need to work together Building on the ballroom dancing craze that has swept the country, including the popularity of "Dancing with the Stars", this illuminating and highly readable book shows that what you learn on the dance floor can help you dance through life. ANTOINETTE BENEVENTO is co-owner of and National Training Director for the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and a former national ballroom dancing champion. EDWIN DOBB is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and has written for numerous other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Discover.



Confessions of a Belly Dancer; Heartland of America

Author : Raksanna Larcher Gore

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 34,35 MB

Release : 2014-05

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1304919773

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3rd - Kansas City - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys.They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession.In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. She has collected the confessions from women with one thing in common...the dance.Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Celebrate their courage in having shared these stories live in Kansas City's City Stage at Union Station. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you, too, will feel the longing to confess.



Awakening to the Dance

Author : Georganne Spruce

Publisher :

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 32,4 MB

Release : 2012-06-30

Category : Dancers

ISBN : 9780615606842

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What does it take for us to become our authentic selves? In her memoir, Georganne Spruce, a woman who chooses to define herself rather than follow society's stereotypes, searches for an authentic identity, creative expression, and a spirituality that uplifts her. On this journey, this dance of life, she learns to release her fear, express her deepest thoughts, heal her body, stand strong in relationships, and find her spiritual core. As a teacher, she strives to empower those she teaches. This book is more than one woman's story, for Georganne shares the tools, practices, dreams, and insights she has used to transform life's challenges into a life she loves.



Dancing At The Still Point

Author : Elinor Dickson

Publisher : Chiron Publications

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 50,65 MB

Release : 2019-05-03

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 163051697X

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At a time when we are witnessing the return of the World Soul, the rise of feminine consciousness and the re-enchantment of Nature, the friendship between Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson offers us a rare glimpse into the new story yearning to be born. Dancing at the Still Point reveals a remarkable friendship rooted in Soul that is both deeply personal and transpersonal. Prompted by a dream in which Marion told her to write about their friendship, Elinor has succeeded in weaving their shared visions, dreams and insights with the playfulness, challenges, and honesty they shared over thirty-four years. Like all deep friendships, Marion and Elinor mirrored each other while mutually affirming their individual destinies. This is a book that celebrates the gift of friendship as a compelling model for community in these times. As Marion would say, “where soul meets soul that’s love” and love is the field in which we are all called to dance. Elinor Dickson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Jungian therapist, lecturer and workshop leader. She is the co-author of Dancing in the Flames written with Marion Woodman. She lives in Toronto, Ontario



The Dance Claimed Me

Author : Peggy Schwartz

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,13 MB

Release : 2012

Category : African American dance

ISBN : 9780300187939

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"Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It's the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are 'invisible'. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice."--Pearl Primus "A revelation of one woman's life, a celebration of Black beauty, and a pleasure to read, The Dance Claimed Me is required reading for anyone interested in one twentieth-century Black woman trailblazer's story."--Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Crisis Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson. For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed more than a hundred of Primus's family members, friends, and fellow artists--among them Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Holder, Judith Jamison, Donald McKayle, and Archbishop Granville Williams--to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled with passion, drama, determination, fearlessness, and brilliance.



The Dance from Dark to Light

Author : Katherine Mendoza

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 35,4 MB

Release : 2019-04-23

Category :

ISBN : 9781095216002

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We lose people we love; we love people who lose us. We get hurt and we hurt. We make mistakes. We change, we transform. We are humans, we are the dancers of life. I decided to write this book as raw and as honestly as possible. I have chosen the stories that have impacted my life the most; both the ups and the downs. They include the battles that I have won and the ones that I have lost but have survived to come out on the other side. I start with my childhood in El Salvador, hiding my feelings and feeling left behind. Then the wonder of moving to NY where I was able to experience true family love. Like so many things it didn't last and I grew up enough to move to CA to try to run away from my pain. I share my struggles, that many of you may have had as well, with addictions and other problems. Struggles that made me grow as an individual. I share my experience being a stripper and how I was able to come out of it into my spiritual awakening. I found my passion and transformed my darkness into light. While writing this book my only intention was to heal myself. I wanted to let go of what was holding me back from the life I imagined. In my process of healing, I realized that what I had gone through was something more universal, so the book ended up also becoming a guide for the reader - an opportunity to start a journey of self-awareness using the activities in each chapter. Perhaps this is the book for you if you are ready to make the changes to start living outside of pain and find the rest of your life. For me, I had to learn to forgive and love myself exactly the way I exist! I write in the past, present and future. Time doesn't exist in the pages of this book. The deeper you get in the book the more magic you may find... because it is there inside of you waiting to be discovered.------------------------ About the Author: Katy Mendoza was born in El Salvador, San Salvador 10/24/1994. She was raised in Tappan, NY until she was 20 years old, where she learned to speak English and Italian before she moved to California. Here the real adventure started with jobs ranging from bussing tables and working in a shoe store to being a fitness instructor and exotic dancer. She had to lose herself in order to find herself. At the age of 23, she took charge of her life and became an Entrepreneur and CEO of Happy Healthy World. She shares her life challenges and Spiritual Awakening to motivate others with Intention to awaken them to their Maximum Potential.