Dancing at the Castle
Title | Dancing at the Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Jane M Gullong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2018-04-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780692064580 |
A memoir of growing up in the 50s on the shore of Long Island Sound in Connecticut.
Modern Dancing
Title | Modern Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Vernon Castle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Ballroom dancing |
ISBN |
When the Dancing Stopped
Title | When the Dancing Stopped PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Hicks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0743280083 |
Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.
Modern Dancing
Title | Modern Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Vernon Castle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Ballroom dancing |
ISBN |
Written by one of the most famous exhibition ballroom teams of the century, the manual covers a large variety of dances popular during the ragtime era, including the tango, one step, hesitation waltz, and maxixe. A large portion of the book is devoted to grace and etiquette, appropriate dance dresses for women, and music. Many photographs of the famous couple enhance the manual.
Wildwood Dancing
Title | Wildwood Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Juliet Marillier |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780330438285 |
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
Over at the Castle
Title | Over at the Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Boni Ashburn |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2016-02-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1613124430 |
In this clever reworking of the classic folk song “Over in the Meadow,” readers meet villagers who spent their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, dancing, and more. The text counts up from one baby dragon to ten court jesters, and kids will enjoy counting along with each of the characters as they go about their daily work. At the end of the day, all the villagers look out their windows for a special surprise from their dragon neighbors. Readers will pore over illustrations filled with the same unexpected, warm humor of Boni Ashburn and Kelly Murphy’s first book, Hush, Little Dragon.
Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution
Title | Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Golden |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2007-11-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813172691 |
Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue. Irene was also a fashion innovator, bobbing her hair ten years before the flapper look of the 1920s became popular. From their marriage in 1911 until 1916, the Castles were the most famous and influential dance team in the world. Their dancing schools and nightclubs were packed with society figures and white-collar workers alike. After their peak of white-hot fame, Vernon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps, served at the front lines, and was killed in a 1918 airplane crash. Irene became a movie star and appeared in more than a dozen films between 1917 and 1922. The Castles were depicted in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), but the film omitted most of the interesting and controversial aspects of their lives. They were more complex than posterity would have it: Vernon was charming but irresponsible, Irene was strong-minded but self-centered, and the couple had filed for divorce before Vernon's death (information that has never before been made public). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution is the fascinating story of a couple who reinvented dance and its place in twentieth-century culture.