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61) The band wagon
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage.
62) Arabian nights
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
A selection of erotic stories from "The Thousand and One Nights". The film is framed by the story of a young man's quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, Arabian Nights is a fierce and joyous exploration of human sexuality.
Author
Publisher
Delphinium c 2023
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Living with her Babby after her parents' death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad's legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union's ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her "profile" don't make prima ballerinas. Love of Leningrad, ballet, friends, family, and books sustain Dinah until history...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
230L
Language
English
Description
"The big recital is just around the corner, and all of the students in Miss Bird's dance class are busy getting ready. The stage is designed, the costumes are picked, and the dancers must practice, practice, practice! But when Mia decides to practice on her way home from class, she falls and hurts her paw. Oh, no! Can Mia still be part of the big day? Miss Bird might have the perfect part for Mia after all."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Level Best Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Nutcracker ballet is filled with holiday cheer, but no one is happy, least of all lead dancer Leah Siderova. It's bad enough when Maurice Kaminsky forces her to perform upon a shaky platform, which teeters high above the stage. It's worse when the curtain opens on the first murder victim, and the scene looks more like the end of Romeo and Juliet than a child's vision of Christmas. The dancers were unanimous in their dislike of Maurice, and they...
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angelina Ballerina is starting at a new school in a brand-new town, and she is afraid she won't dance as well as her classmates, especially since she has no room to practice in her new house.
67) The archer
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Vidya, a rebellious young dancer and motherless daughter, comes of age in 1960s and 70s Bombay"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
69) Flamingo road
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Joan Crawford stars as a dancer in a traveling circus. Stranded in a corrupt Southern town, she is framed for murder by a crooked sheriff.
Author
Publisher
BBC Books, an imprint of Ebury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Behind the Sequins, Queen of Latin and Head Judge on Strictly Come Dancing, Shirley Ballas, leads us through her dramatic and determined life, from growing up on a rough estate on the Wirral and leaving home at 14 years old, to conquering the high-octane world of Ballroom and coping with betrayal, bullying, two broken marriages and a personal tragedy that left Shirley and her family devastated. Shirley Ballas has enjoyed a spectacular dance career...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is made as a concert which is composed of unique fragments of dances from the famous performances of the great ballet dancers of the XX century, who brought fame to the Bolshoi theatre. The film depicts stories about their creative activities. One could see Ann Pavlova in the dance "The Dying swan, Sulamifj Messerer and Asaf Messerer in the dances specially staged for them, Marina Semenova in the Swan lake, Olga Lepeshinskaya and Peter Gusev,...
72) Black swan
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked...
77) The last dance
Author
Series
Detective Miller novels volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
78) Frank & Penelope
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected as EVERYTHING is now worth dying for.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Doris Humphrey's dance-drama of possessive and vindictive maternal love in a harshly ritualistic and demagogic society. The cast is led by Dalienne Majors, Nina Watt, and Raymond Johnson. Filmed at the American Dance Festival in 1972, the first film is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Allie Larkin was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic Bay to heal a broken ankle while also helping her dear Aunt Gully get her Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack off the ground. Nothing would help Gully more than winning the local food festival’s Best Lobster Roll contest. The competition is sure to be killer―especially after one of the contest judges dies after eating a roll from...
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