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All the sixth graders at Memorial Middle School are talking about one thing: their first boy-girl party. Lucia's had enough talk about what to wear and who's going with who. If her best friend hadn't insisted, she wouldn't even go to the dumb party. But after she gets to know Adesh, she starts to thinking maybe this boy-girl party won't be so bad. Too bad he's interested in another girl. Supported with a glossary and reader response questions, this...
2) Ceni Cienta
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"When a school dance coming up, Cindy Rella's career-driven stepmother and ultra-vapid stepsisters make her feel like she isn't glamorous enough to attend, but with the help of a handicapped friend and his tailor father, Cindy gets her chance to go to the dance"--Provided by publisher.
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Lupita is excited about dancing La Raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day, El Día de los Niños, but just before the performance her partner, Ernesto, sprains his ankle.
Lupita está muy entusiasmado con el baile La Raspa, una danza folclórica mexicana, con su clase de primer grado en una celebración del Día del Niño, El Día de los Niños, pero justo antes de la actuación de su pareja, Ernesto,...
8) ¡A bailar!
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A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.
9) Sunny
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Sunny es exactamente lo que significa su nombre en inglés: soleado. Siempre con la sonrisa bobalicona y algo agradable que decir, Sunny es el tipo más chévere en el equipo de los Defensores. Pero la vida de Sunny no siempre ha sido un rayo de sol resplandeciente. Verás: Sunny es un asesino. O al menos eso es lo que piensa de sí mismo. Su madre murió al darle a luz, y si nos basamos en el modo en que su padre lo trata --al ignorarlo y hacerle...
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Scope and content: Newspaper clippings, photographs and programs spanning the years from 1934 to circa 1990 (bulk 1940-1980)documenting the career of Nashville, Tenn. ballet instructor and dancer Albertine Maxwell and her students. The collection also documents the growth and increasing support and respect accorded ballet in Nashville throughout a large part of the twentieth century, evident through Albertine's founding of Les Ballets Intimes with...
13) Chita
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"Era conocida como Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, hasta que Broadway le cambió el nombre. Pero Dolores, el lado irreverente de Chita Rivera, que es sensual, oscura y feroz, nunca se alejó de la acción, y ella informó y dio forma a algunos de los papeles más aclamados del ícono de Broadway, incluidos Anita en West Side Story, Rosie en Bye Bye Birdie, Velma en Chicago y Aurora en El Beso de la Mujer Araña. Con el deseo de llegar...
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When Estella is banned from the adult exercise dance class, she decides to petition for childrens' rights--to have salsa dance classes at the community center.
Cuando Estella se prohibió la clase de adultos de ejercicios de baile, ella decide peticionar por los derechos del niño - a tener clases de baile de salsa en el centro comunitario.
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El amor est? en el aire... ¿pero qu? significa eso para Greg Heffley? La fiesta de San Valent?n ha puesto a la escuela de Greg patas arriba. ¡Incluso ?l est? buscando pareja para acudir al festejo! Pero pronto empieza a preocuparse, porque no parece f?cil encontrar a alguien. Su mejor amigo Rowley tampoco tiene pareja, pero eso no es ning?n consuelo. De manera inesperada, Greg consigue acompa?ante, pero en una noche tan especial todo puede pasar,...
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Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...
20) La Gran Mara
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Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is...well...the same. Except Mara! She's a little different. She' bright. She's sunny. And, unlike her classmates who are all planning on performing a similar magic show act at the school talent show, she is going to dance, dance, dance! One problem: everyone in Sametown - her classmates, her teacher--they all think she shouldn't do it. And it's not just (it seems) because dancing isn't the status...