تاريخ النشر: 01/06/2003
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:Woman with pizzazz. Dances that shock and enchant. With heroines like Josephine baker and Isadora Duncan, this was never going to be a conventional history.
Buonaventura's latest book is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl who was arrested for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and ...astonishing facts (the first geisha were men), as well as tender portrayals of dancers whose stage antics have earned them lasting fame.
Buonaventura heads to Argentina and the immigrants inventing tango in Buenos Aires; to Paris and the bawdy entertainers of the Moulin Rouge; to Chicago and New York, where struggling black Americans cakewalk, Charleston and shimmy their long road from slavery. She returns to the Middle East, and the Arabic dance that led to her lifelong fascination with the dancing body.
On the way, she takes in Princess Diana, anorexia, transvestism and cosmetic surgery. This book is for anyone intrigued by the sublime, sexy and downright surreal ways we find to strut our stuff. إقرأ المزيد