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Author
Language
English
Description
When an admirer leaves a note and $1000 backstage for dancer Trisha Holiday, the woman soon finds herself swept off to a prince's kingdom before marrying a prince named Malik, who has called the United States home for the past seven years. Still growing accustomed to her new life and surroundings, Trisha resolves to help her sister overcome a broken marriage to find true love.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The gay divorcee: Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent--www.imdb.com.
Shall we dance: A budding romance between a ballet master and a tapdancer becomes complicated when rumours surface that they're already married--www.imdb.com.
Top hat: Showman Jerry...
3) Frog music
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives. In an audition twist, Zach asks each performer personal and intimate questions--with results that powerfully affect not only the young performers, but the hardened stage veteran as well"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the song Prince wrote about their love story, Mayte Garcia shares the story of their relationship and offers a singular perspective on the music icon and their world together: from their unconventional meeting backstage at a concert (and the long-distance romance that followed) to their fairy-tale wedding and their artistic partnership, to the devastating losses that ultimately dissolved their romantic relationship...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Angelina is chosen as the lead dancer in Sleeping Mouseling. It's her dream come true! But she can't land all of the steps in her routine...will she keep trying and get it right before the big performance?"--Provided by publisher.
7) Swing time
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
While gambler and dancer Lucky Garnett is attempting to prove to his prospective father-in-law that he can earn $25,000, he meets dance teacher Penny Carrol and thoughts of his financee are replaced by the beautiful Penelope.
10) Dancer
Publisher
First-Run Features
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Swedish
Description
Follows the young ballerina Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Misty Copeland became the first African American Female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, but how did she get there?"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a picture book biography of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, an African American who lost his leg in a factory accident at the age of twelve and went on to become a world-famous tap dancer.
13) Flashdance
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"The exhilarating story of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals), a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman, who works as a welder by day and a dancer at a local bar at night ... We follow Alex's struggle to gain independence, find love, and realise her dream - to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO's The Night Of and Lovecraft Country, Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen. Beyond the nominations and acclaim, Williams...
16) Snowman's wish
Author
Publisher
North-South
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Teased by other toys because he is neglected on the bottom of the toy case, a snow globe snowman is granted a magical hour outside of his snow globe, during which he shares a dance with a beautiful little music box ballerina.
Author
Series
Fool's Gold volume 9.5
Language
English
Description
When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that many Highland dances use swords to prove their strength? Or that bharatanatyam dancers perform with bells around their ankles and red dye on their hands and feet? There's a whole world of dances out there! Told with simple language andshown with vivid photographs, A World of Dancers is perfect for emerging readers curious about the fascinating and varied dancers worldwide.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maisie Cannon is having a hard time. It's been months since her knee injury, and her recovery process has been painfully slow. As a serious ballet student, Maisie is eager to rebuild her strength and get back to the dance studio. She knows all her ballerina friends are auditioning for prestigious summer dance programs, while she remains sentenced to physical therapy. But the injury isn't her only problem. Maisie has been irritable toward her loved...
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