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From the author of Shall We Dance: A Beginner's Guide to Ballroom Dancing comes Latin Dance, with the same easy-to read illustrated dance steps that make it so simple to dance.

Latin Dance has thirty six new steps for Rumba, Cha-cha and Salsa dancers. Written for the social dancer by someone who knows what a social dancer feels like and wants to know. Attractive new patterns in the Rumba, Cha-cha and Salsa are covered in a clear, easy to follow style that anyone canfeel comfortable with and see progress right away. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Footprints are the best
The footprints are real easy to follow, I dont know why all books dont have them. The words are real clear too. Never thought I would like a dance BOOK! but its better than the video I got.

Excellent Book
This book is full of patterns that are really easy to lead and the woman can follow it without knowing ahead of time what the guy will do.The detailed illustrations are easy to understand with no mistakes about the 'left turn' to his left? her left?It is always clock-wise or counter-clock-wise.This book, like the other one I got from the same author is excellent for teaching yourself without an instructor. ... Read more

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The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar.
This anthology looks at many modes of dance—including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño—as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning’s essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while José Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Fírmat’s "I Came, I Saw, I Conga’d" and Jorge Salessi’s "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume’s subject matter.

Contributors. Barbara Browning, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jane C. Desmond, Mayra Santos Febres, Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Josh Kun, Ana M. López, José Esteban Muñoz, José Piedra, Gustavo Perez Fírmat, Augusto C. Puleo, David Román, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval

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Tonight They All Dance can serve as a primer to the composition of Latin verse and, as such, can lend students and scholars alike insight into the intricacies and joys of writing poetry in a non-native language. Haiku, with its short form and engaging content, is the ideal instrument for a first exploration of Latin poetic composition. By modeling the composition of Latin haiku and translating both the substance and the form into English haiku, students will begin to understand the challenges of accurate and beautiful translation. It is only through such intimate experience that a true sense of Latin verse can be gained.

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Introduction with tips on composing Latin Haiku
92 Latin Haiku
English Translations
Four sections: Caelestia, Terrestria, Animalia, and Humana
Vocabulary
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Customer Reviews (1)

Good Book!
I bought this book thinking I might use it in my Latin classes.Some of the vocabulary is unusual--not the common words found in the Cambridge Latin Course! I'm going to have to think about how to incorporate it in alesson or unit--maybe with uses of the ablative or something.I love thefact that the translations are also Haiku!The font and illustrations arevery pleasant.This book puts me in a relaxed, peaceful mood. ... Read more

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Step by Step instructions for Thirteen Ball room Dances. American Waltz...Quick (Viennese) waltz...Foxtrot...Peabody...American swing...Rumba...Mambo ...Cha-cha-cha...tango...Samba...Merengue...Paso DOble ...Polka. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 710 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On broadway: the beat is back: Mambo Kings puts a dictionary of Latin rhythms on Broadway.
Author: Sylviane Gold
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 79Issue: 7Page: 62(2)

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58 Latin-flavored favorites, including: Mexican Hat Dance * La Golondrina * La Paloma * Adios Muchachos * Cielito Lindo Playera * more. ... Read more

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When John Charles Chasteen learned that Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, danced on a banquet table to celebrate Latin American independence in 1824, he tried to visualize the scene. How, he wondered, did the Liberator dance? Did he bounce stiffly in his dress uniform? Or did he move his hips? In other words, how high had African dance influences reached in Latin American societies? A vast social gap separated Bolívar from people of African descent; however, Chasteen’s research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap.

Fast-paced and often funny, this book explores the history of Latin American popular dance before the twentieth century. Chasteen first focuses on Havana, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro, where dances featuring a “transgressive close embrace” (forerunners of today’s salsa, tango, and samba) emerged by 1900. Then, digging deeper in time, Chasteen uncovers the historical experiences that molded Latin American popular dance, including carnival celebrations, the social lives of slaves, European fashions, and, oddly enough, religious processions. The relationship between Latin American dance and nationalism, it turns out, is very deep, indeed.

John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Latin Beat Magazine, published by Latin Beat Magazine on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The infectious merengue.(history and influences of merengue music and dance)
Author: Frank M. Figueroa
Publication: Latin Beat Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Latin Beat Magazine
Volume: 15Issue: 1Page: 26(3)

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