Introduces readers to the sport of dance. Simple text and colorful spreads make this book a perfect starting point for early readers.

This title explores the life and career of JoJo Siwa. Learn about JoJo's childhood, family, and career, including how she got her start on YouTube, rose to fame, and became a pop culture influencer. Fun facts about viral videos, popular posts, and subscriber counts enrich the text while dynamic photos give readers a behind-the-screens look at this popular YouTuber. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, informative sidebars, a timeline, and an index.Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became independent? The author argues that dancers, as symbolic girls or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended kin groups, and the Uzbek nation-state. The female dancing body became a tabula rasa upon which the state inscribed, and reinscribed, constructions of Uzbek nationalism.

Doi describes the politics of gender in households as well as the dominant kinship idioms in Uzbek society. She traces the rise of national dance as a profession for women during the Soviet period, prior to which women wore veils and kept purdah. The final chapter examines emerging notions of Uzbek, as regional and national groups contest the notion through debates about what constitutes authentic Uzbek dance. Doi concludes with a comparative discussion of the power of marginality, which enabled Uzbeks to maintain a domain where Uzbek culture and history could be honored, within the Russocentric hegemony of the Soviet state.

Do you use dance with people who have a wide range of needs and many different styles of learning? Do you want to use dance to enable young people to express themselves, to participate in group activities, to increase their self-esteem and to explore ways of working and moving? It's Your Move provides theory and practical examples that will enable you to lead inclusive, motivating and enjoyable dance sessions. Whether you are dancing with people with limited movement or with high energy participants, this book provide practical dance ideas that you can use in any setting. It's Your Move challenges conventional views of 'dancers' and 'dancing', and explores the creative possibilities that can make dance an exciting and enjoyable experience for everyone.

Join Zoe as she takes you on a tour of the world of ballet. Learn all about the clothes, the shoes, preparing for lessons, basic steps, jumps, character dances, mime, tutus and tests.