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Planner 2024 Weekly | Monthly: Ballroom & Latin Dancing Themed 12 Month Diary/Journal | Ideal Gift For Dance Fans
Thoughtfully Designed By Dancing Feet Journals & Notebooks This 2024 Personal Planner/Diary Is Perfect For Any Ballroom And Latin Dance Fan Wanting To Efficiently Organize Their Year.Features:
⇢ 12 MONTH DATED PLANNER: Daily planner begins in January 2024 and ends December 2024 for 12 months of coverage. Provides at-a-glance calendars for 2023, 2024 and 2025 and a dedicated space to write down all your notable dates for 2024.
⇢ WEEKLY AND MONTHLY VIEWS: The diary features dated weekly spreads with clearly divided sections for daily planning. At the start of each month a mini calendar has been included as well as a lined “to do” column with check-boxes to set goals and write lists, and an area to jot down important notes for the week ahead.
⇢ COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT: The journal measures 6 inches wide by 9 inches long making it ideal for carrying in backpacks, purses, or dance bags. Complete with 120 crisp, white pages to record all your appointments, events and important dates.
⇢ BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCE DETAILS: The planner features Ballroom and Latin Dance themed illustrations throughout and a vibrant image of a dancing couple on the front cover that any dance fan will love.
⇢ EXTRAS: The Personal Organizer includes space on each monthly spread to list any events or socials you may be attending that month as well as any special dates you need to remember e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, dance examinations, competitions or dance lessons. There are also blank, lined pages provided at the back of the journal for jotting down all your important notes.Dance To Express. Not To Impress!
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Dance to the Beat: An action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. (Collins Big Cat)
A bright, action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. The step-by-step instructions include sequential words at the start of each sentence: First, Next, Then, Now and Stop. Photographs of children dancing support and clearly demonstrate the actions referred to in the text.
- Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
- Text tye – An instruction text.
- The summary on pages 14 and 15 allows children to discuss and recap the instructions.
- Curriculum links – Music: feel the pulse, exploring rhythm; PE: dance activities.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery
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Ballerina Activity Book For girls Ages 6-8: 60 Delightful Ballet Activities and Games for Aspiring Little Dancers! Explore Mazes, Coloring Pages, Word Searches, Math Challenges,…
Calling all little ballerinas!
Dive into the enchanting world of ballet with our captivating activity book designed just for you.
⭐ Ignite your passion for dance as you twirl through engaging mazes, unleash your creativity on beautiful coloring pages, and unravel ballet secrets in exciting word searches.
⭐ With math challenges that keep young minds agile, this book offers a perfect blend of fun and learning. Inspire your child to express their grace, imagination, and love for dance as they twirl through the pages of this magical activity book.
⭐ Perfect for ages 6-8, this is the ultimate companion for young ballet enthusiasts.Spark their passion for ballet and unleash their inner dancer today!
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Dance Nation (Modern Classics)
“”Barron paints a wholly plausible picture of teenage insecurity and ambition… a play that wittily shows how dance can be a source of liberation without ever quelling the tremulous terrors of adolescence.”” – GuardianSomewhere in America, a revolution is coming. An army of competitive dancers is ready to take over the world, one routine at a time. With a pre-teen battle for power and perfection raging on and off stage, Dance Nation is a ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award, Dance Nation is Clare Barrons explosive play about the challenges of being young, and competitive dancing. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama’s Modern Classics series, this edition features a brand new introduction by Eboni Booth and Purva Bedi.Read more
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The Ballroom Blitz: The escapist and romantic new novel from the nation’s favourite entertainer
The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.
September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it’s all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they’re accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night.
Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, the dashing Raymond de Guise struggles to define his role in this new world, and to do his duty both to his country, and his beloved wife Nancy- who needs him now more than ever.
With profiteers skulking the London streets, and devious rivals plotting the Buckingham’s downfall, the hotel staff must all hold onto what matters most- and decide where their loyalties truly lie.
As the bombing intensifies and Christmas fast approaches, somehow the show must go on…
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The Story of Northern Soul: A Definitive History of the Dance Scene that Refuses to Die
Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of the Northern Soul scene.
What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul takes the first ever in-depth look at the culture, the music, the artists and the people frequenting the all-night venues which are synonymous with the British Soul Scene. Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of a dance scene that refuses to die.
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Dance with your Heart your feet will follow: Ballet College Lined Ruled Notebook (6×9 Inches 130 pages) | Gifts for Dancers, Journal for Dance Lover & … Lessons Notes |…
This college ruled lined notebook is perfect for dancers to note their progress and keep record of all dance lessons notes in order to progress and become a better dancer every day.This book contains:
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Size: 6 x 9 Inches.
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College ruled lined pages.
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A cover design that appeal to girls and women for all ages.
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Dance to Express. Not to Impress. 2024 Planner: Ballroom & Latin Dance Themed 12 Month Diary/Journal | Perfect Gift For Dancing Fans
Thoughtfully Designed By Dancing Feet Journals & Notebooks This 2024 Personal Planner/Diary Is Perfect For Any Ballroom And Latin Dance Fan Wanting To Efficiently Organize Their Year.Features:
⇢ 12 MONTH DATED PLANNER: Daily planner begins in January 2024 and ends December 2024 for 12 months of coverage. Provides at-a-glance calendars for 2023, 2024 and 2025 and a dedicated space to write down all your notable dates for 2024.
⇢ WEEKLY AND MONTHLY VIEWS: The diary features dated weekly spreads with clearly divided sections for daily planning. At the start of each month a mini calendar has been included as well as a lined “to do” column with check-boxes to set goals and write lists, and an area to jot down important notes for the week ahead.
⇢ COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT: The journal measures 6 inches wide by 9 inches long making it ideal for carrying in backpacks, purses, or dance bags. Complete with 120 crisp, white pages to record all your appointments, events and important dates.
⇢ BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCE DETAILS: The planner features Ballroom and Latin Dance themed illustrations throughout that any dance fan will love.
⇢ EXTRAS: The Personal Organizer includes space on each monthly spread to list any events or socials you may be attending that month as well as any special dates you need to remember e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, dance examinations, competitions or dance lessons. There are also blank, lined pages provided at the back of the journal for jotting down all your important notes.
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Selections from Ballet Repertoire, piano music for dance class: Compiled and Arranged by Rob Thaller/
Compiled by long time ballet accompanist Rob Thaller, this book is for the ballet accompanist looking for popular repertoire. The pieces are arranged for solo piano and modified for use in a traditional ballet class. Pieces are organized by time signature and tempo. The primary ballets represented are Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Raymonda, Don Quixote and Giselle.This is not a source for variations in their original form.
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Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy: From the Nutcracker Suite
Steiner level III 1/2. A perfect selection for a holiday recitals or other gatherings, this D minor arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet piece will give the intermediate level pianist a lot of enjoyment and a nice challenge in artistic touch and dynRead more
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Tap!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars And Their Stories, 1900-1955
From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intricate artistry of bebop, tap has dominated American dance with its rhythm, originality, and humour. This book collects the voices and memories of thirty of America’s best-loved tap-dance stars and two hundred rare theatre, film, and publicity photographs. Here Shirley Temple recalls her magical duo with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Fayard Nicholas describes his days at Harlem’s Cotton Club performing with Cab Calloway Fred Kelly visits his and his brother Gene’s Pittsburgh dance studio Hermes Pan reminisces about his work with George Gershwin, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire and, in a chapter new to this edition, Toy and Wing tell about their days as the world’s leading Asian tap duo. Appended with the most comprehensive listing of tap acts, recordings, and films ever compiled,newly updated for this paperback edition, Tap! brings to life the legends of one of America’s most cherished and enduring art forms.Read more
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Ballet Boy Notebook: beautiful matte cover with male ballet dancers–perfect for choreography notes, training and fitness log, journaling and more!
“You live as long as you dance.” (Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, director and choreographer)
Dancing is passion–and if that’s you or someone you know, then you will love this beautiful notebook. It’s a unique gift for male ballet lovers, instructors, students, etc.- 100 lined pages with watermark of male dancer
- 6×9 portable size
- perfect gift!
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Scottish Dance: A celebration of Scottish dancing (Collins Little Books)
The perfect stocking filler for lovers of Scottish Dance.
A perfect introduction to the world of Scottish dance by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, including a short history of Scottish dancing. The book takes you through simple ceilidh moves to more complex formations and set dances, illustrated through diagrams and photos.
Popular traditional dances are featured, such as ‘Dashing White Sergeant’, ‘Eightsome Reel’, ‘Strip the Willow’ and ‘Cumberland Reel’.
This comprehensive collection also contains several lesser known dances such as ‘Flowers of Edinburgh’, ‘Jenny Dang the Weaver’ and ‘La Russe’.
From reels to watlzes and medleys to quadrilles this little book is a celebration of Scottish traditional folk dance at its best.
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Lord of the Dance: My Story
From the international star of Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and, now, Celtic Tiger, comes a no-holds-barred autobiography that reveals the person, the passion and the drama behind Michael Flatley’s astonishing career. Michael describes growing up as the son of Irish immigrants in a tough Chicago neighbourhood and the many years he struggled to make real his dream of becoming a professional Irish dancer. He was in his mid-thirties when he was asked to create Riverdance for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, bursting onto our television screens with a dazzling dance sequence. Just as his dreams were being realised, Michael was shattered when he and Riverdance parted company. Now Michael explains whas really happened backstage and describes how he went on to create the enormously successful Lord of the Dance.
Michael also deals openly with the controversies that have surrounded his success, such as the 2003 rape charge, his turbulent love life and the illness and injuries that have threatened his career. Filled with commentary from family, friends and colleagues and brimming with Michael’s Irish charm and good humour, this book is the very personal story of a man who has lived life to the fullest according to his own credo: nothing is impossible.
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Pas De Deux: The Royal Ballet in Pictures (Royal Ballet): The Royal Ballet in Pictures (Royal Ballet)
Pas de deux shows dancers of The Royal Ballet in remarkable and beautiful photographs, taken at the Royal Opera House. The images record striking pas de deux moments across The Royal Ballet s repertory. It includes classic such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, masterpieces by Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, who were instrumental in moulding the company s repertory, as well as new works by the leading choreographers of today.Read more
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Royal Academy Of Dancing Step By Step Ballet Class: Illustrated Guide to the Official Ballet Syllabus
Written with the full backing and expertise of the renowned Royal Academy of Dancing and following the international ballet examination syllabus, this is an updated edition of the bestselling Ballet Class.
From the basic positions of the feet to exercises for the most advanced ballet grades, Step-By-Step Ballet Class is an essential companion for all budding ballerinas. It gives a comprehensive selection of ballet exercises taken from each of the examination grades, beginning with Pre-Primary and working up to Grade Five, the most advanced. Clear step-by-step illustrations and explanatory text take the dancer through each exercise in turn and there are checklists of important points to remember. Topics such as how to find a good ballet school, dressing for dance and taking a ballet examination are also included. This important ballet book will ensure that dancers of all ages get the most out of their ballet lessons, both in and out of the classroom.
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Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking
With a Foreword by Oti Mabuse.
Dance is at the heart of diverse cultures around the globe, from the increasing popularity of salsa clubs, to break dance battles that gather crowds in the street, to the constant stream of dance routines going viral on TikTok. Every Saturday from September to December, 8 million people tune in to watch Strictly Come Dancing.
But behind the glitzy performances are amazing and unpredictable histories: the shocking debut of the waltz in eighteenth-century Vienna; the power of African-American influence on the jive and Lindy hop; and the early foundations of hip-hop in funk and disco styles. Tango, samba, Charleston, cha cha cha, rumba – each dance has distinct rhythms, quality of movement and complex rules to learn and follow. But they all shook up society and gave ordinary people the freedom of self-expression.
Choreographer Robert Hylton navigates an extraordinary array of photographs, periodicals and ephemera from the British Library collections, which reveal the true origins of the popular dance styles that have, at one point or another, swept the population off their feet.
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Growing Up and Thriving in Two Very Different Cultures: A Journey Through Life guided by Classical Indian Dance
The book shows how British girls of Indian Descent manage to honour their heritage by learning the discipline of Indian Classical dance, while at the same time, they see themselves as typical British teenagers. This is a photographic record of the development of these dancers from when they start at the age of five right up to the time when they graduate ten to twelve years later.Read more
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History of Dance
History of Dance, Second Edition, examines dance from prehistoric times to the present. It focuses on the dancers and choreographers, the dances, and significant dance works from each time period. For instructors, it offers ancillaries including an instructor guide, test bank, PowerPoint presentation package, and student web resource to reinforce the learning from the text. The student web resource is also available separately for students and instructors. It offers experiential learning activities to help students dig deeper into the history of dance and develop critical thinking and investigative skills. Special features and charts bring facts, events, and timelines to life. Through History of Dance, students will acquire a foundation for understanding and a springboard for studying dance in the 21st century.Read more
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Bachata!: …or “How to ‘Bump-n-Grind’!”: Volume 3 (The Little Book of Dancing)
“Bachata!” is the little brother to “Salsa!” and “Rueda!” in the ‘Little Book of Dancing’ series…
It is a brief introduction to the many styles of dancing Bachata, especially the newer Bachata Rueda, which is rapidly gaining in popularity around the world
Reviews of the previous books Salsa! and Rueda! have been excellent!
“Wonderful funny written book. Each page gives you new experience, a hint and a big smile. The most I loved about the book was the humor it was written with, practical advice about salsa and dancing etiquette. Beautiful and easy reading.”
“Fun, easy to read book for salsa lovers and those interested in learning how to dance. I enjoyed the book very much! The author talks about different aspects of dancing, gives lots of good advice to both men and women and eliminates doubts beginners might have. His little anecdotes give the book a personal touch. If you are not a dancer yet, the book will make you want to take up salsa`ing! Great read!”
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Dance flower notebook 120 lined glossy A5. Perfect for journaling, diary, corrections, notes, class planning and ideas.
Stay organised and keep all your choreography notes, teachers lesson plans, corrections, ideas or journaling all in 1 place. An inspirational notebook for teachers or students that you can use as your own personal diary or as a custom personalized gift. •Dimensions: A5•Interior: 120 pages / 60 SheetsContains lined pages•Cover: Full colour soft cover paperback with glossy print.Use for homework, note taking, creative writing, corrections, lesson plans or journaling. Record your memories, thoughts, quotes or achievements. A perfect gift for your teacher, friend, student or just for you.Read more
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The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance
Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and creatives to enjoy both recreationally and professionally. The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance offers a practical and uncomplicated overview to the multi-layered history, practices and development of jazz dance as a creative and artistic dance form. It covers the incredible history and lineage of jazz dance; the innovators, choreographers and dance creatives of the genre; specifics of jazz aesthetic, steps and styles; a detailed breakdown of a practical jazz dance warm-up and technical exercises; creative frameworks to support development of jazz dance expression and aesthetic; performance and improvisation; jazz music and musical interpretation, and finally, choreographing and creating jazz works. With over 230 colour photos and a wealth of tips and advice, this new book will be an ideal reading companion for dancers of all abilities, dance teachers, choreographers as well as all jazz dance enthusiasts.Read more
£17.30£19.00The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance
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Safe Dance Practice
Every dancer of every age, ability, and style should be able to engage fully in the act of dancing and be encouraged to achieve their potential without risk of harm to the body or mind. Practical information on all aspects of safe practice that is not too simplistic or complex has not always been easy to find. With nearly 60 years of collective experience in the dance profession, the authors translate extensive research and evidence-based practice in order to present the essential principles of safe practice. Safe Dance Practice takes a multidisciplinary approach to the components of dancing safely, integrating principles without compromising dancers artistic creativity and expression.Read more
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Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance (Screen Classics)
When considering the best dancers in Hollywood’s history, some obvious names come to mind – Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell’s effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, and free-flowing musicality led MGM to build top-rate musicals around her unique talents, including Born to Dance (1936) with James Stewart and Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) with Fred Astaire, in which she became known as the only female tap dancer capable of challenging him. In a male-dominated industry, her fierce drive for perfection, sometimes to her detriment, earned her a place as one of the most accomplished performers in vaudeville, Broadway, and film. Powell’s grace, precision, and power established her as one of the greatest American dancers. In 1943, she married actor Glenn Ford and largely stepped away from the spotlight for the duration of their tumultuous marriage. After their divorce, Powell made a courageous comeback, successfully performing in Las Vegas and on the nightclub circuit. Cancer claimed her life at the age of sixty-nine. Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance by Paula Broussard and Lisa Royère is an all-encompassing work following the American dance legend from her premature birth into a single-parent home in Springfield, Massachusetts, to her first Broadway performance at age fifteen, through her days as a blazing icon in the world of Hollywood, and finally, to her inspiring comeback. With access to rare documents, letters, and production files, as well as drawing on the authors’ intimate personal relationships with Powell, this is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and fascinating look at an incredibly talented and unforgettable woman.Read more
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Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys, and Techniques
Dance Music Manual, aimed at the novice and seasoned professional alike, takes the reader through the software and hardware needed to create original, captivating, and professional sounding music.
Key features of Dance Music Manual include:
- How to create compelling, professional-sounding original or remixed dance tracks.
- The differences between different genres and how to produce them.
- How to expose your tracks to their chosen audience and equip you with the skills to develop your career as a dance music producer and engineer.
Along with the book is a companion website, which provides examples of synthesis programming, compression, effects, MIDI files, and examples of the tracks discussed in this edition.
The new and improved fourth edition covers processes and techniques used by music producers, masters, mixers, and DJs. Each page is full of facts presented in a manner that is easy to absorb and implement.
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Life is Better When You Tap: Dance Journal Tap Dancing Gift Lined Notebook
Do you love tap dancing? Celebrate your passion for percussion with a cute lined journal.
It’s the perfect place to write down notes, appointments, and any other thoughts you don’t want to forget.
Use it as a diary, logbook, or composition book. And a reminder of how much tap dancing rhythm means to you.
Journal Details:
- 6” x 9” size
- durable matte paperback cover
- 120 pages
- blank lined cream paper
Small enough to fit into your bag, backpack or purse. Big enough to put a smile on your face.
Makes a great gift for tap dancers, dance teachers and students, jazz musicians and choreographers.
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The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the book he was working on when he died.Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham and had Merce Cunningham in her first company. When Campbell retired from teaching in 1972, he and Erdman formed the Theater of the Open Eye, where for nearly fifteen years they presented a wide array of dance and theater productions, lectures, and performance pieces.
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.” This book offers the reader an accessible, yet profound and provocative, insight into Campbell’s lifelong fascination with the relationship of myth to aesthetic form and human psychology.
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The Ultimate Dance Business Planner: Dated 2023/2024, Keep Focus, Make Goals, Evaluate and Build your Dance School with Purpose
The Ultimate Dance Business Planner is not just any planner it is a planner for dance business owners who like to keep focused, make goals, evaluate their business and feel purposeful and motivated to build their schools.
The dance planner is created by dance business expert and multi-passionate dancepreneur Deborah Laws. Deborah is on a mission to help dance school owners see themselves as business owners/ founders and company directors and not just dance teachers.
Through Deborah’s cleverly designed planner, not only will you have a new desk organiser to keep everything in one place, but you will be prompted to create strategies to grow your school, be mindful of keeping on track with your goals and stay focussed with guided to-do lists. This planner is fully dated and runs from August 2023 – July 2024.
It’s like having your very own business mentor by your desk!
Day-per-page diary, including goals and to-do lists
Create monthly strategies to work savvy and balanced in your business using Deborah’s special S.T.A.R.S systemMap out your yearly events and campaigns for retention and attraction
Evaluate specific dance business-related criteria each month and track growthBe inspired by weekly motivational quotesNot only do you get all of the above but you now get Deborah’s exclusive monthly mini pieces of training and tips on growing and managing your school via the QR codes at the start of each month. Your book is now packed full of fabulous content that makes it so much more than just a business planner. Enjoy!
This year could be your most organised, successful and profitable year yet with your Ultimate Dance Business Planner by your side!
This 394 page Planner is 8″ x 10″, paperback and full colour throughout
Printed on bold white paper and with a book industry-perfect binding and a beautiful matt cover, the crisp white paper has a quality that minimises ink bleed-through.
This book is suitable for pen or pencil.
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Dance: Training Handbook
This easy-to-use handbook helps you remember dance terminology and steps. With helpful photos to guide you through each move, never forget how to do the basics.Read more
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Border Dance: A Study in Contrasts and Conflict and How to Resolve Them
Every culture on earth has at one time or another danced. From tribal times forward people have danced to socialize, express themselves creatively, and promote societal unity. The borders that separate us came much later in human development. It is time to return to our roots and dance, dance, dance. That is because dance has the unique ability to unite a person’s mind, body, and soul. In his capacity as a touring bassist, Jimi Calhoun witnessed thousands upon thousands of people lose themselves in dance. Suddenly, ethnic, racial, and religious differences disappear. Borders, on the other hand, divide religious communities, races, and nations. Human conflict is perpetuated by these boundaries. What is written within these pages will show you ways to dance across divisions by means of a choreography of altruism. This is a book that invites you to dance to the rhythms of grace that result in true harmony and unity.Read more
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My Dance Competition Keepsake Journal
“My Dance Competition Keepsake Journal” is a perfect way to keep track of your dancer’s competition success!
Complete with places for competition information, adjudication, specialty awards and a photograph, the journal will serve as a special keepsake for many years to come!
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Music, Dance and Translation
How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation of dance and music act as a form of translation? How does music influence the creation of dance? How might dance and music be understood to exchange and transfer their content, sense and process during both the creative process and the interpretative process? Bringing together chapters that explore theory and practice, this book questions the process and role translation has to play in the context of music and dance. It provides a range of case studies across this interdisciplinary field, and is not restricted by genre, style or cultural location. As one of very few volumes to explore translation in relation to music and to overtly tackle this topic in terms of dance, it moves the argument from a broad notion of text and translation, to think critically about the sound and movement arts of music and dance, using translation as a model to better understand the collaboration of these art forms.Read more
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Dance Teacher Because Super Amazing Multi-tasking Life Saving Miracle Worker Isn’t An Official Job Title: Dance Teacher Notebook Journal | … Gifts For Dance Teachers/ Coach/…
Features:
- 108 pages interior lined journal
- Have First page for writing owner name & Info
- Matte Finish Cover
- Dimensions: Large – 6 x 9 inch format.
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Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement
From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre.Through the integration of song and dance in the ‘dream ballets’ of choreographers like Agnes De Mille; the triple threat performances of Jerome Robbins’ dancers; the signature style creation by choreographers like Bob Fosse with dancers like Gwen Verdon; and the contemporary, identity-driven work of choreographers like Camille A. Brown, the history of the body in movement is one that begs study and appreciation.
Dance in Musical Theatre offers guidelines in how to read this movement by analyzing it in terms of composition and movement vocabulary whilst simultaneously situating it both historically and critically. This collection provides the tools, terms, history, and movement theory for reading, interpreting, and centralizing a discussion of dance in musical theatre, importantly, with added emphasis on women and artists of color.
Bringing together musical theatre and dance scholars, choreographers and practitioners, this edited collection highlights musical theatre case studies that employ dance in a dramaturgically essential manner, tracking the emergence of the dancer as a key figure in the genre, and connecting the contributions to past and present choreographers. This collection foregrounds the work of the ensemble, incorporating firsthand and autoethnographic accounts that intersect with historical and cultural contexts.
Through a selection of essays, this volume conceptualizes the function of dance in musical: how it functions diegetically as a part of the story or non-diegetically as an amplification of emotion, as well as how the dancing body works to reveal character psychology by expressing an unspoken aspect of the libretto, embodying emotions or ideas through metaphor or abstraction.
Dance in Musical Theatre makes dance language accessible for instructors, students, and musical theatre enthusiasts, providing the tools to critically engage with the work of important choreographers and dancers from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
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I Pole Dance so I Don’t Punch People in The Throat: Funny Pole Dance Gift / Pole Dancer Journal / Pole Dance Instructor / Pole Dance Teacher / Pole Fitness gift / 120 Pages,…
This awesome and sarcastic pole dance art design idea is the perfect gift you can give to a pole dancer. Whether you are a pole dancer who wants to show her love to pole dancing; or a pole dancer mom who is looking for the perfect gift to give to your pole dance son or pole dance daughter for their birthday or christmas; this funny pole dance quote is the way to do it.
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My Irish Dancing Journal, A Great Notebook Gift For An Irish Dancer, To Record Feis Scores & Training, Irish Dance Lovers Gift: | Lined Notebook / … 120 pages, 6×9, Soft…
Features :- This notebook contains 120 lined pages.
- 6 x 9 inch notebook perfect size for your wallet, carrying case, desk, backpack, school, and home.
- Durable and sturdy soft cover
- Perfectly suited for taking notes, writing, organizing, lists, and journaling.
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Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds’s landmark rave history Energy Flash has been expanded and updated to cover twenty-first-century developments like dubstep and EDM’s recent takeover of America.
Author of the acclaimed postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again, Reynolds became a rave convert in the early nineties. He experienced first-hand the scene’s drug-fuelled rollercoaster of euphoria and darkness. He danced at Castlemorton, the illegal 1992 mega-rave that sent spasms of anxiety through the Establishment and resulted in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. Mixing personal reminiscence with interviews and ultra-vivid description of the underground’s ever-changing sounds as they mutated under the influence of MDMA and other drugs, Energy Flash is the definitive chronicle of electronic dance culture.
From rave’s origins in Chicago house and Detroit techno, through Ibiza, Madchester and the anarchic free-party scene, to the pirate-radio underworld of jungle and UK garage, and then onto 2000s-shaping genres such as grime and electro, Reynolds documents with authority, insight and infectious enthusiasm the tracks, DJs, producers and promoters that soundtracked a generation. A substantial final section, added for this new Faber edition, brings the book right up to date, covering dubstep’s explosive rise to mass popularity and America’s recent but ardent embrace of rave. Packed with interviews with participants and charismatic innovators like Derrick May, Goldie and Aphex Twin, Energy Flash is an infinitely entertaining and essential history of dance music.
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2024 Dance Diary: CUTE GIFT FOR DANCERS to log competition dates, daily habits, expenses and TO DO lists
2024 Dance Diary
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR DANCERS AND DANCE LOVERS that want to get organized in 2024. Keep track of important dates, ideas, habits, expenses and much more!
Includes:
- Personalisation page – with space to write contact details
- Year to a page view for 2024
- Annual Planner page for keeping track of important dates and to log your goals for the year.
- Monthly Diary – 4 pages to each month: Calendar, Personal Expenses Tracker, Monthly TO DO sheets, Habit tracker.
- Week To A Page Planner with space for ideas and a To Do list.
PAPERBACK perfect bound cover – 6″ x 9″ size.
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Strength and Conditioning for Dancers
Strength and Conditioning for Dancers is an accessible guide to how to design and incorporate supplemental fitness training into a dancer’s schedule. It links current evidence on the relationship between physical fitness, dance performance and injury incidence, breaking it down into clear and convenient sections, starting with the fundamentals of muscle physiology and training principles and moving on to specific training components. Key topics covered in the book include: self-screening; programme design; specific exercises for the core, upper and lower body; basic Pilates; nutritional support for training and finally, programmes to get you started. Featuring practical training programmes to get you started, this user-friendly book will be of great value to dancers, teachers and trainers looking to enhance both fitness and performance.Read more
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The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World
‘The definitive look at dance music and club culture – a must read’ – Paul Oakenfold‘Brilliantly woven collection of aural histories … a damn fine read’ – DJ MAG
In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, took a week-long holiday to Ibiza. What they saw there, and brought back home, would give rise to a new global music and counterculture movement.
As the eighties drew to their close, with Thatcherism holding the nation tight in its grip, something funny was happening right across the jungle of Britain’s nightlife scene. People were dressing down, not up, to go to clubs. And they were dancing right through the night armed seemingly with only bottles of water. Ecstasy and acid house music had arrived on British shores, and a tribal battle between for the moral future of the nation, between the youth and the establishment, had begun.
In The Second Summer of Love, author and dance music promoter Alon Shulman uses exclusive contributions from the world’s biggest DJs, including Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Moby, Faithless, Mr C, Farley & Heller, Danny Rampling and many others to faithfully recreate the story of the summers of 1988 and 1989, and chart the birth and rise of Acid House, dance music and club culture right through to the modern day where dance music has become a culturally dominant global industry.
Complete with stunning unseen photographs, this is the first authentic account of what really happened in that glorious period – from the politics and the people to the music, the drugs, the fashion and the culture – told by people who were there, as they bring to life the creation of an underground scene which inadvertently altered the course of modern global youth culture forever.
‘It’s as if house music and rave culture tapped into this ancient predilection of humans to stay up all night dancing and staring into the fire, and just supercharged it with electricity and MDMA’ – Moby
‘What I was experiencing was right in front of my eyes, it was happening right now and I loved it’ -Carl Cox
‘It opened my eyes and ears to a different spirit in music’ – Fatboy Slim
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