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4) Step up 3
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a tight-knit group of New York City street dancers are pitted against the best hip hop dancers in the world, it's a high stakes dance battle that'll change their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? Aliénor Salmon was working as a happiness researcher in Bangkok when a friend asked her the question that turned life as she knew it on its heels. A novice dancer but experienced social researcher, the Franco-British Aliénor headed west from Bangkok to dance her way through Latin America. As she learns eighteen dances, each native to the countries she visits, she engages with esoteric customs,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chery Etienne has her own hip-hop dance crew, but now some of them are moving away and she will have to try out for her middle school's hip-hop dance team, although since she has never had any formal training she is not sure her unique style will be welcome.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling. From her personal anecdotes, her engaging collection of stories about dance from around the world, or her description of the captivating photograph by Helen Levitt of two children dancing, which she sees as one embodiment of the mystery and joy that dancing can evoke, Aloff's exploration of the aesthetic, social, and...
14) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An innocent young girl is introduced to the sensuality of dance when she meets the dance instructor at her resort hotel.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces Capoeira, a combination of play, martial arts and dance, as practiced in the United States and Brazil, as well as its colorful roots in the African slave culture of Brazil and its history.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market or the bus stop, with your fingers or your face. You can dance because you're happy or even because you're sad. But what's the best way to dance? Exactly how you want to! There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market...
17) Deer dancer
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
20) I am salsa
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Each Saturday night, Marisol's family comes together to salsa! Everyone--from Mami and Papi to primos, abuelos, and tías--twirls and sways to the catchy rhythm. But ever since Marisol was a baby, her clumsy feet get twisted, and her moves get mixed up. It's better if she just sits and watches everybody else dance. Though, with a little help from Papi and some encouragement from her whole family, maybe Marisol can learn to feel the beat of the instruments...
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