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Three of your favorite "Dance Moms", Kelly, Melissa, and Jill are here to give you that warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia! Listen each week as we answer your questions, give advice, and add a little sparkle to your day! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir.

Abby Lee Miller founded the world-renowned Abby Lee Dance Company at the age of 14. Since then, her competition teams have been highly awarded in the competition circuit; from State, Regional, and National titles year after year. ALDC Alumni perform professionally on major box office blockbuster films, television shows, worldwide theme parks, Radio City Music Hall, and Broadway shows. Some of her most notable students became household names, after appearing on her reality television series "Dance Moms". She went on to additionally star in a franchise of spinoffs including Abby's Ultimate Dance...

The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell’s previously uncollected articles on dance, along with “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the treatise that he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this new collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as “the funnel through which spirit is poured into life.”

A broad range of perspectives from natives and nonnatives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the US Army and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890.

An exploration of the largely untapped Medial Woman archetype—the archetype within the psyche who beckons us to an inner journey of intuition—through signs, dreams, myth, and story. Medial Women dance in the dark and return to the light more whole than before. Unlock the hidden power within...

The Masked Dance is a candid personal reflection on the psychological, religious, and cultural influences at the core of domestic violence. Monica vividly conveys her spiritual battle against the entanglements of the abuse cycle while unveiling the latent messages that cultivate emotional and physical violence against women. This book opens urgently needed conversations about Christian culture and what its hidden messages say about the value of a woman’s soul versus the value of her marriage.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system. If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can...

The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, moving across the country with her family. After overcoming additional...

Invisible Visibility discusses the key barriers that marginalize disabled artists from taking center stage and looks at examples of good practice through three key case studies. This audiobook puts forward an agenda for change, inclusion, and, ultimately, visibility within the sector and beyond for disabled dancers from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Dance is a captivating form of expression that transcends language and culture, blending movement, rhythm, and emotion into a harmonious art. It can be graceful, powerful, intricate, or spontaneous, depending on the style and intention. Here’s a more detailed description:1. **Movement**: At its core, dance is about movement. It ranges from fluid motions that flow seamlessly from one to the next, to sharp, precise gestures that punctuate the rhythm.2. **Rhythm**: Dance is intimately connected to rhythm, whether it’s provided by music, percussion, or even silence. Dancers often synchronize ...

Join professional dancer and filmmaker, Mia Tate, as she dives into the heart, humor, and why behind movement. Each episode of Why We Dance pulls you into the intimate world of a guest—dancers, artists, everyday inspirations—who’ve loved, healed, survived, reimagined, and thrived through dance and movement. From backstage confessions to living room breakthroughs, Mia blends soulful chats, wild stories, and unfiltered truth with people from every walk of life. Bold, tender, and pulsing with the primal heartbeat we all share, this podcast is an open invitation to feel the stories behind ...

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DANCE! heißt der neue Tanz-Podcast in dem es um die schönste Nebensache der Welt gehen soll: das Tanzen! Mit wechselnden Gästen wird sich Moderator Rafael über alles mögliche rund um das Thema unterhalten. Aber es soll natürlich nicht nur um das eine gehen - auch die persönliche Geschichte der Gäste soll erzählt werden.

In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse—and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. A wise and unsettling book, Prison Writings is both memoir and manifesto, chronicling Peltier’s life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

Embodied Movement as The Medicine is a storytelling podcast exploring the personal healing journeys of many individuals for whom conscious movement and dance became a vital practice profoundly impacting their lives in beneficial ways. ​Through intimate, grounded, human conversations, dancers and facilitators from Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal share how free-form, somatic movement became a turning point — not only a source for healing, awakening, and rediscovering personal truth, but also a space for co-creating community while expressing and reclaiming our vitality together through ...

In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.

🎙️ Travel and Dance è il programma di Radio Vacanze che unisce la passione per i viaggi all’energia dei grandi successi anni ’80.Ogni mercoledì alle 19 raccontiamo storie autentiche, proposte selezionate da agenzie di viaggio e tour operator e, soprattutto, le esperienze dei nostri ascoltatori.Le tue telefonate ed email rendono ogni puntata viva e partecipata. Vuoi condividere una meta che hai scoperto o la tua prossima vacanza?Scrivi a gianluigi@radiovacanze.com o compila il modulo: la redazione sceglierà le proposte più interessanti da raccontare in diretta.

La mitica dance revival.

Six episodes dedicated to the creative processes and the production of the performances by international choreographers with the Dance Well communities in each city of the project.Dance Well is a project supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Visit the official website: www.dancewell.eu