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Bezig met laden... And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove (2018)door Henry Alford
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Loved the details of dance history; his humor is best suited to these sections. I found the author's personal meditations about dance to be heartfelt though a little half-baked. Needed tighter editing in the parts about his personal history--the seemingly endless digressions slowed down an otherwise delightful book. ( ) I've been reading Alford a long time, back to the LAMPOON and SPY days. I think he used to be funnier, but we were all younger then. I am quite familiar with studying dance in NYC and going to concerts and Twyla Tharp's 100s, so I could understand a lot of what's in this book. I will buy a copy for my dance friend, who will enjoy it. I see that Alford is now going in for first person narratives to explicate a subject, an interesting approach, often used these days. I have mixed feelings about it. What if the narrator gets on your nerves? And isn't funny or perceptive enough? Or gives TMI? Or whose self-deprecating persona becomes irritating and drains the joy from both our experiences? If it were up to me, I would have edited him down a bit. Great to see a MOR book about dance, though -- hope it gets more people into class & into the audience. Thanks to Simon & Schuster & Edelweiss for a Nook ARC. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Biography & Autobiography.
Performing Arts.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML:"Captivating...equal parts memoir and cultural history, Henry Alford seamlessly interweaves heartwarming and hilarious anecdotes about his deep dive into all things dance" (Misty Copeland, The New York Times Book Review). When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, stress reliever, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source of ongoing wonder, andâ??when he dances with Alzheimer's patientsâ??even a kind of community service. Tackling a wide range of forms (including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, tap, contact improvisation, Zumba, swing), Alford's grand tour takes us through the works and careers of luminaries ranging from Bob Fosse to George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp to Arthur Murray. Rich in insight and humor, Alford mines both personal experience and fascinating cultural history to offer a witty and ultimately moving portrait of how dance can express all things human. And Then We Danced "is in one sense a celebration of hoofer in all its wonder and variety, from abandon to refinement. But it is also history, investigation, memoir, and even, in its smart, sly way, self-help...very funny, but more, it is joyfulâ??a dance all its own" (Vanity F Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)792.8The arts Recreational and performing arts Stage presentations, Theatre Ballet and modern danceLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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