The Kings of Dance novel is an education of dance, and how music evolved along with it. “As far back as I can remember which would be 1972; Rock the dance was born right before my eyes.” The first-time author, Luis De Jesus, exclaims an education on how “Rock” was born and how from the Bronx dance roots the next level of dancing evolved. The purest form of dance; Rock! THE BASICS, THE FUNDAMENTALS! A lot of people do not have knowledge and are blind to the real facts, let this be your schooling. This story is a time portal that takes you back to the different glamorous Disco’s, music, and styles of clothes. This book is so that the truth can be exposed. Luis was there; he is the proof in the pudding. All of the people mentioned in this book deserve their title.This is based on a true story! It took place in the Bronx.

The Kings of Dance novel is an education of dance, and how music evolved along with it. “As far back as I can remember which would be 1972; Rock the dance was born right before my eyes.” The first-time author, Luis De Jesus, exclaims an education on how “Rock” was born and how from the Bronx dance roots the next level break dancing evolved. The purest form of dance; Rock! THE BASICS, THE FUNDAMENTALS! A lot of people do not have knowledge and are blind to the real facts, let this be your schooling. This story is a time portal that takes you back to the different glamorous Disco’s, music, and styles of clothes. This book is so that the truth can be exposed. Luis was there; he is the proof in the pudding. All of the people mentioned in this book deserve their title.This is a true story! It took place in the Bronx.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”

Tells of four women whose fates are bound to the palace and the politics of Versailles.

Our third collection, designed to compliment Chimes of Dunkirk and Listen to the Mockingbird. A collection of 22 more dances that we have used successfully in classrooms and at community dances. Dance instructions are carefully worded with accompaning photos, diagrams and glossary. Includes longways, circles, contras, squares and scatter mixers. Companion CD features dance length recordings of appropriate music for the dances. Music captures the excitement of dancing to live music in a community dance setting. The two square dances include singing calls on the recording.

After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state – a land governed by the Maori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Dancing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King's country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement. For twenty years, the King and the Queen's representatives engaged in a dance of diplomacy involving gamesmanship, conspiracy, pageantry and hard headed politics, with the occasional act of violence or threat of it. While the Crown refused to acknowledge the King's legitimacy, the colonial government and the settlers were forced to treat Tawhiao as a King, to negotiate with him as the ruler and representative of a sovereign state, and to accord him the respect and formality that this involved. Colonial negotiators even made Tawhiao offers of settlement that came very close to recognising his sovereign authority. Dancing with the King is a riveting account of a key moment in New Zealand history as an extraordinary cast of characters – Tawhiao and Rewi Maniapoto, Donald McLean and George Grey – negotiated the role of the King and the Queen, of Maori and Pakeha, in New Zealand.