By Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro was once a reporter looking for a narrative while she met Leela, a stunning and charismatic bar dancer with a narrative to tell.
Leela brought Sonia to the underworld of Bombay’s dance bars: an international of glamorous ladies, of fierce love, intercourse and violence, of consumers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps.
When an formidable flesh presser cashed in on a tide of fake morality and had Bombay’s dance bars burnt up, Leela’s proud independence confronted its maximum attempt. In a urban the place nearly everyone seems to be sure that somebody, someplace, is worse off than them, she fights to outlive, and to win.
Beautiful factor, probably the most unique works of non-fiction from India in years, is a shiny and intimate portrait of 1 reporter’s trip into the darkish, pulsating and finally broken soul of Bombay.
Read or Download Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars PDF
Best dance books
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance
Highway Scenes offers a conception of overdue medieval performing and function via a clean and original studying of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The functionality idea viewpoint hired the following, in addition to the exam of actor/character dialectics, paves the way in which to understanding either non secular theatre and the complexity of past due medieval theatricalities.
Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance
The choreographies of invoice T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped identify dance as a vital discourse of the 90s. those dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the viewers to work out the physique as a resource of cultural identification -- a actual presence that strikes with and during its gendered, racial, and social meanings.
The Remix Manual: The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic
Are you able to flip a soulful ballad right into a hit dance tune, or make any Billboard hit your personal? With this all-in-one advisor to remixing, you could! no matter if you are a expert DJ or manufacturer, or are only commencing to combine tracks, this step by step advisor will convey you thru the total means of making your individual professional-quality remixes.
In continuously multiple, the thinker, visible artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept that of the "more than human" within the context of circulate, notion, and adventure. operating from Whitehead's technique philosophy and Simondon's conception of individuation, she extends the ideas of stream and relation constructed in her prior paintings towards the concept of "choreographic pondering.
- How to...Ballet
- Ideokinesis: A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah
- Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)
- The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd Edition
Extra resources for Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Sample text
T. ) (1999), Observación en deporte y conducta cinésico-motriz: aplicaciones (pp. 71–105). Barcelona: EUB. , Dinušová, M. and Jonsson, G. (2009). Identifying and analyzing motor skill responses in body movement and dance. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (3), 857–867. Clarke, D. (2004). Structured judgement methods. In Z. Todd, B. Nerlich, S. McKeown and D. Clarke (eds), Mixing methods in psychology (pp. 81–100). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press. W. (1999). Mixed-method research: Introduction and application.
The first stage would involve collecting data about the athletes’ stature (QUAN) and personality using standardized tests so that they could be classified according to their measurements and personality traits. They would then be grouped together for the purpose of interviews (qual) aimed at detecting the reasons behind their sporting preferences. In the context of physical activity this kind of design is used in studies with relatively large samples, especially when the researcher wants to begin by gathering quantitative data and, on the basis of this, form study groups which will be then be subjected to a qualitative analysis.
S. (2010): Application of T-pattern detection and analysis in sports research. The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 3, 62–71. S. G. (2000). Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences. K. S. Lincoln (eds), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 163–188). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. M. (2005). Research and evaluation in education and psychology: Integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. B. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook.