Dancing On My Ashes

February 1st, 2012

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There is a time for everything…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 (NIV) It was only supposed to take a few hours to scout out a good canoe route. But when James Brill and Scott Nesbitt weren’t back in time for dinner, their wives, sisters Heather and Holly Wall, started to pray. They didn’t stop–even when the bodies of their beloved husbands turned up a day later in the rushing river. Dancing On My Ashes is a true story that details the painful passage of two young widows out of the ashes and into their dance with the Almighty God. When tragedy strikes, we often discover that we have been living with a false sense of who God is and begin asking questions like, Can Christ heal my wounds? Can He really take the ashes of my life and make them a source of beauty? Dancing On My Ashes is a call to stop living wounded and accept the presence of God’s hand in our lives. Are you ready to dance?Product Description
There is a time for everything…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 (NIV) It was only supposed to take a few hours to scout out a good canoe route. But when James Brill and Scott Nesbitt weren’t back in time for dinner, their wives, sisters Heather and Holly Wall, started to pray. They didn’t stop–even when the bodies of their beloved husbands turned up a day later in the rushing river. Dancing On My Ashes is a true story that details the painful passage of two young widows out of the ashes and into their dance with the Almighty God. When tragedy strikes, we often discover that we have been living with a false sense of who God is and begin asking questions like, Can Christ heal my wounds? Can He really take the ashes of my life and make them a source of beauty? Dancing On My Ashes is a call to stop living wounded and accept the presence of God’s hand in our lives. Are you ready to dance?

Dancing On My Ashes

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Swing: Dancing with Teresa Mason

January 21st, 2012

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The cultural effect of the revival of Swing Dancing has been sudden and intense. It is now a common sight at dance clubs across the country to see hep cats in their black and white spectator shoes and zoot suits out on the dance floor swirling and twirling their bobby-socked dance partners. Now you can join in all the excitement and learn to master the techniques of Swing dancing with ballroom dancing champion Teresa Mason. This informative dance class features the basic steps for the five most popular Swing dances including West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Lindy, Jitterbug, Jive. Included are five steps for each dance as well as a styling tip. Your competence and confidence will grow as your progress through each easy-to-understand lesson.
Teresa Mason is a professional teacher and performer and is a former national champion competitor. Her teaching is accredited by the Imperial Society. Together with her partner, Lance Estridge, they operate Dance Arts in Houston. Miss Mason is the creator and instructor of the Ballroom Dancing series of DVD’s also available from Kultur.

Swing: Dancing with Teresa Mason

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Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit

January 10th, 2012

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Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown–as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon–and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA.

As Suzanne Smith traces the evolution of Motown from a small record company firmly rooted in Detroit’s black community to an international music industry giant, she gives us a clear look at cultural politics at the grassroots level. Here we see Motown’s music not as the mere soundtrack for its historical moment but as an active agent in the politics of the time. In this story, Motown Records had a distinct role to play in the city’s black community as that community articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas. Smith shows how these local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban North, both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign.

Against a background of events on the national scene–featuring Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, Nat King Cole, and Malcolm X–Dancing in the Street presents a vivid picture of the civil rights movement in Detroit, with Motown at its heart. This is a lively and vital history. It’s peopled with a host of major and minor figures in black politics, culture, and the arts, and full of the passions of a momentous era. It offers a critical new perspective on the role of popular culture in the process of political change.

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Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit

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Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz

December 31st, 2011

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If you have always wanted to feel more confident on the dance floor, “Introduction to Ballroom Dancing” may be just the answer. Now you can learn the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot right at home! The routines in this program may be practiced with a partner or alone. This program may be used by those with little or no previous dance experience and as a refresher for those with prior experience. It is designed to improve social skills in the privacy of one’s own home. These skills, once learned, add lifelong enrichment and pleasure. This DVD will teach you the basic steps to these dances as well as several variations and turns. In addition, you will learn proper dancehold and foot positions. Now you can practice the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot to the tunes from such popular Broadway hits as Cats, Mame and Fiddler on the Roof as performed by the Günter Norris Orchestra. And Ballroom Dancing is a great way to stay in shape and much more pleasurable than merely exercising to music. Your instructor, Margot Scholz, brings her experience and enthusiasm into your home as you learn ballroom dancing. She is a member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance and is the winner of numerous dance competitions. She has taught dance throughout Europe and in the United States. Dance your way to fun and fitness with the exciting Introduction to Ballroom Dancing.

Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz

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Dancing with Thread: Your Guide to Free-Motion Quilting

December 19th, 2011

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Free-spirited Quilting Techniques Gives You The Freedom To Create the Perfect Design. Create decorative quilting designs on any sewing machine that fit your quilt the best. Use the troubleshooting guides to solve common free-motion quilting problems. Create stunning designs using your own doodles as patterns. Add movement, personality, and texture to your quilts. Discover the beauty and ease of working with decorative and metallic threads Are you looking for a faster way to create custom quilting designs? Then you’ll love free-motion quilting! Not only is it relaxing and calming, but the free-style approach is so much fun you’ll want to make a quilt for everyone you know!

Dancing with Thread: Your Guide to Free-Motion Quilting

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Country Dancing for Beginners

December 10th, 2011

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COUNTRY DANCING FOR BEGINNERS – DVD MovieAmazon.com
Country Dancing for Beginners begins with an inspiring demo of how competition-level dancers–Josh Zuniga and Alina Wilson–might style the six dances: country polka, waltz, cha-cha, two-step, East Coast swing, and West Coast swing. Then Zuniga and Wilson demonstrate the basic level of each dance with variations while Teresa Mason’s voice instructs. The “beginner” designation of this video might be misleading. Although the instructors demonstrate basic steps, they move quickly through the dances: five steps, plus a routine putting it all together, of six different dances in 60 minutes. You’ll have to pause the program frequently to practice. True beginners might be intimidated by the pace, and the routine at the end is more intermediate than beginning level. Country Dancing for Beginners will appeal to experienced dancers of other styles of dance who are learning country western for the first time, but are not novice dancers. It’s nicely produced and beautifully danced. –Joan Price

Country Dancing for Beginners

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Wind in the Grasses Dancing

November 27th, 2011

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WIND IN THE GRASSES DANCING is the first book in the Dancing the Dream Series. When the United States Government issues an ultimatum to all non-treaty Indians to surrender to the reservations no later than January 31, 1876, Wind in the Grasses Dancing defies the mandate and joins Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in one of the largest defensive stands in the history of the Lakota. As the threat of war becomes imminent and the Lakota’s world is thrown into chaos, Wind in the Grasses Dancing is faced with the most difficult decision of his life when he is torn between his love for Amber, the daughter of a local rancher, and his beloved people. Review Snips 5.0 out of 5 stars ~ Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away, April 19, 2011 By L.M. Jackson “Lisa MJ” (Author of ‘Perfect Circles’) Outstanding! A rare jewel! Many have written about the ending days of Native American life in the 1800’s. Very few have had the ability to imbue the deep connection these people had with each other, their way of life and the heartbreak they endured. 5.0 out of 5 stars ~ A Jewel of Writing, April 18, 2011 By J.A. Plantamura “Joe” I am enthralled. What wonderful writing. McClay vividly describes the life and times of Dancing Wind. She humanizes history and brings it to life. This is such a magnificent tale. 5.0 out of 5 stars ~ Excellent Historic Western Romance and More, March 15, 2011 By Frances Anderson-Jackson, Author of “Patience – Bold Rider” Ms. McClay has written a story to satisfy the heart as well as the mind. While the romance is poignant, I equally enjoyed the well researched work into Native American life and lore. This lady knows her material and is a natural storyteller. I highly recommend it. 5.0 out of 5 stars ~ Can’t wait for the sequel, April 23, 2011 By Fourwindsdancer I was mesmerized. I’ve read many Native American novels, from Historical Fiction to Historical Romance, and this is the first book that I was able to connect with and really feel for what the characters were experiencing. Check out Terrie’s webpage @ terriemcclay.weebly.com for more information on the upcoming novel, WHISPERS FROM THE SOUTH.

Wind in the Grasses Dancing

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Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.

November 19th, 2011

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Funeral strippers work on Electric Flower Cars (EFC) which are trucks that have been converted to moving stages so that women can perform as the vehicles follow along with funerals or religious processions. EFC came to Taiwan’s public attention in 1980 when newspapers began covering the phenomenon of stripping at funerals. There is a great deal of debate about whether this should be allowed to continue. In Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, one often hears middle and upper class men complain about the harmful effects of this rural practice on public morality. In contrast, people in the industry see themselves as talented performers and fans of the practice say that it makes events more exciting. Dancing for the Dead follows this story, interviewing Taiwan’s academics, government officials, and people working in the EFC industry to try to make sense of this phenomenon. The film includes footage from nine different cities across Taiwan, including EFC performances, a funeral, and several religious events.

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Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.

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Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

November 5th, 2011

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Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements.

Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen’s history before examining the country’s role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader.

Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

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Jodi Stolove’s Chair Dancing Around the World

October 29th, 2011

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Chair Dancing®’s Around the World program is a fun and convenient way to get aerobic exercise, tone muscles, improve flexibility and burn calories. You’ll do a country western dance, a Brazilian samba, a polka, an Argentinean Tango, a Viennese Waltz, a Caribbean calypso, and much more, all while comfortably seated on a chair. Originally scored music and up-beat choreography make Chair Dancing® the fitness program you’ll look forward to doing regularly! Three exercise levels show you how to adapt the program to your current fitness ability. You’ll continue to be challenged as your endurance improves. When you exercise the Chair Dancing® way, you’ll enjoy aerobic fitness like never before!

Jodi Stolove’s Chair Dancing Around the World

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