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![]() She explored the classical world in Push Comes to Shove, for the American Ballet Theater and the celebrated Russian virtuoso Mikhail Baryshnikov. She thrilled a new audience with her witty version of jazz in Eight Jelly Rolls, then merged her dancers with the Joffrey Ballet for the sensational Deuce Coupe, to the music of the Beach Boys. The same is true for all theatrical dance making, all over the world, only most of it isn't so inspired or obsessed." Starting in the rebellious 1960s, Tharp tried her creative wings on minimalism, pedestrianism, and Dada, then abandoned both the avant-garde and the established modern dance. It's the most subtle form of competition and cooperation, a process so intuitive, so intimate, that no one can say whose dance it is in the end, and none of the parties to that dance can be removed without endangering its identity. Brave, virtuosic, and cheerful, they volley back what she gives them and more. Crusty, driven, demanding, and admiring, she hurls challenges at the dancers. ![]() ![]() She doesn't so much invent or create it, she prepares for it. At the conclusion of Howling Near Heaven, Marcia Siegel writes about the thrill of watching Tharp choreograph in 1991: "Tharp's movement can be planned or spontaneous, personal, funny, hard as hell, precise enough to look thrown away. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL260329W Page_number_confidence 75.00 Pages 66 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200218122553 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 415 Scandate 20200213065943 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927000587417 Tts_version 3. One of the most acclaimed literary fairy tales of all time, George MacDonalds profound and witty story floats into bubbling new life in this lovingly crafted full cast reading. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. ![]() Urn:lcp:lightprincess0000macd:epub:5051293b-1ca5-40b7-8036-feef5f99da38 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lightprincess0000macd Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8xb0qr9q Invoice 1652 Isbn 069049307Xĩ780690493085 Lccn 62012814 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA17100 Openlibrary_edition Click to read more about The Light Princess by George MacDonald. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Urn:lcp:lightprincess0000macd:lcpdf:4f2e2041-0063-4a33-aba3-9a47d0cee548 The Light Princess By: George MacDonald Narrated by: Simon Bubb Length: 1 hr and 37 mins Try for 0.00 Prime member exclusive: pick 2 free titles with trial. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:02:05 Associated-names Pène du Bois, William, 1916-1993, illustrator Boxid IA1775705 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() The author is still the undisputed queen of contemporary gothic fantasy, but this novel leaves a taste of reheated Rice in the reader's mouth. The result is a narrative mired in a decadence that impedes forward momentum. Lee spends much of the tale cataloguing the quirks of the Scarabae, who grow younger as they age, and describing their clothing and meals. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. Although filled with mystery and foreboding, the story takes too long to gel. Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 ) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. ![]() While other Scarabae seek unobtrusive niches in the world, Anna is abducted to a subterranean mock-up of Egypt by a mysterious patriarch named Cain, to act out the centuries-old power struggles that have shaped the clan. Physically and mentally precocious, Anna looks like an adolescent at age two, and manifests unhealthy signs that she is a reincarnation of Ruth. ![]() ![]() The family diaspora forced by the fratricidal rampage of Ruth, the ``bad seed'' born to Rachaela Day in Personal Darkness, continues here, with several Scarabae roaming the English countryside in the guise of bikers while Rachaela settles down in London with the androgyne Althene Simon to give birth to their child, Anna. The darkness that permeated the first two novels of Lee's Blood Opera Sequence (Dark Dance and Personal Darkness, both paperback originals) becomes nearly impenetrable in this third book of the Scarabae, an ancient vampire clan. ![]() |