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"For the first time, the choreographer of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Björk and many others reveals stage stories through his extraordinary journey. Vincent Paterson began his professional dancing career late in life. It would take an exceptional turn whenhe became one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's Beat It music video. Through hard work, he rises to the rank of choreographer and director for the world's greatest singers, but also for cinema...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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40 pages
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"Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salón en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueño, generalmente bailabas en el lugar donde vivías y con gente de tu mismo origen. Pero antes de que terminara la década, una nueva sala de baile - el Palladium - acogió a personas de todos los vecindarios. Cuando Millie...
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"A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aau. Two young men were playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to play, too. Although it is debated when and where capoeira-an art form that blends martial arts,dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality-originated exactly, one thing is certain: in the early 20th century, Brazil was the only country in the world where capoeira was played, and it was mainly...
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Six-year-old Lexy Tanz loves dancing so much that she wants to share her skills with others, and when she is becoming discouraged because no one wants lessons from a girl so small, a herd of hairy giants arrives to test her teaching ability.
32) Dance
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DK
Pub. Date
2005
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72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
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Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, costume, history, and noted dancers and choreographers.
33) I am a dancer
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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Rainbow magic. Superstar fairies volume 3
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
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65 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Rachel and Kirsty are thrilled when their fairy friends whisk them away to the Fairyland Music Festival! But the festival is a mess. Jack Frost has stolen the Superstar Fairies' magic music clefs. He's determined to be the biggest superstar in the world and the girls are determined to stop him! Oh, no! Vanessa the Choreography Fairy is missing her music clef. Now dancers are stumbling all over! Can Rachel and Kirsty help save the day and the...
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Piper Morgan volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
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101 pages ; 22 cm
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When her mother's new job is with the Big Top Circus, Piper Morgan gets to join the other children who travel with the circus in a show-stopping performance, but her dancing grand debut doesn't go as planned.
36) Deer dancer
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2014
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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A girl who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.
37) Peddles
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 volume (unpages) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Peddles is a pig with big ideas--he wants to be a dancer"--
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Yo-Yo Ma inspired by Bach volume 2
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ma, choreographer Morris, and director Sweete colaborate to interpret Bach's third suite though dance and creative camera angles. Ma and Egoyan create a dramatic film that explores the relationships in Bach's music revealing the generosity of spirit and love that flows from Ma's performance.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1940
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1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
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