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How They Became Famous Dancers A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers – six women and six men – from different parts of the world. Spanning the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries, each biographical sketch is placed within the subject’s historical and cultural context. Dancers include Louis XIV, John Durang, Marie Taglioni, William Henry ‘Juba’ Lane, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Michio Ito, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pearl Primus, Amalia Hernández, and Arthur Mitchell. Each chapter includes “Create a Dance†giving readers the opportunity to dance themselves based on each dancer’s style.
PDF How They Became Famous Dancers A Dancing History Anne Dunkin Books
"A fascinating and unusual dance history book for anyone interested in dance for readers age 10-adult."
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How They Became Famous Dancers A Dancing History Anne Dunkin Books Reviews
- Not a children’s book, but a road map
Of navigating a living in the world of
Dance. Layer by Layer the Content and Vocabulary grow with the dance. - Great for young dancers, inspiring. I can't wait to use it to teach dance history in my ballet classes.
- A fascinating and unusual dance history book for anyone interested in dance for readers age 10-adult.
- I received a copy to facilitate my review the opinions expressed here are my own.
This is a wonderful book. My daughter loved dance and at one time was enrolled in eight different dance classes. She could tell me about many of the people who shaped dance in recent years. This book takes us way back to Louis the XIV. This book is the story of twelve dancers who cover the year from the early 1600s to the year 2000. I had not heard of many of these dancers. Their passion for dance was so strong they let nothing stand in their way. In addition to the biographies, at the end of each chapter was a section called “Create a Danceâ€. This section allows you the reader to create a dance in the style of the dance you had just studied. This is a book I will put on my shelves once I have shared it with my daughter. - How They Became Famous Dancers A Dancing History by Anne Dunkin is a wonderful collection of stories. Each chapter is a story unto itself, featuring twelve of history’s most influential dancers. As the stories unwind, Anne Dunkin tells the journey of each dancer from their birth, through their childhood and into their adult lives. She highlights their home and place in history as well as how each became a world famous dancer. Her love of dance is clear and quite infectious.
This book would be an excellent read-aloud. Reading and discussion of each chapter are aided by the brief “lesson†provided at the end of each chapter. Children as young as eight or ten, especially dancers will love this book. Young adults will love the dance history as well as the introduction to world history.
Importantly, the book addresses world cultures and the diversity of people. The book explores how people are more alike than different. Each culture created dance utilizing and accentuating body movement, facial movement, rhythms, sound, music, poetry, lighting and space.
A beautifully written, historic timeline stretching from Louis XIV in 1638 to Arthur Mitchell in the present. - Dance enthusiasts will enjoy this book very much. Written with the younger audience in mind, adults will find this just as rich in tid bits and history.
Wonderful additions I appreciated - the photographs, historical document, and Create a Dance allowing readers to dance to each dancer cited style.
The biography, historical and cultural information is enough to pay homage and pique interest further. Very well done, fun and best of all interactive. - A wonderful book combining dance and history. Ms. Dunkin includes dancers from a wide range of cultures and styles. The book is also beautifully designed and rich in illustrations. Some schools and libraries may be put off because it is "self-published" as many people still assume such books cannot be high quality. But this one is truly the equal of any book released by a major publisher. The writing is excellent and the author has done amazing amount of historical research to bring us the stories of these inspiring dancers.
