The dancer went through several lifetimes of reincarnation, looking for the experience of true love. Among all living things, everyone wished to remember their past and present lives, but who could understand the pain within?
Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and downloadable resources, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The downloadable resources feature extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion Control (premiered on BBC2 in 2002), rare video footage of their punk-comic live performances as The Wild Wigglers and reconstructions of Aggiss's solo performance in Grotesque Dancer. These films are cross-referenced in the book, allowing readers to match performance and commentary as Aggiss and Cowie invite a broad range of writers to examine their live performance and dance screen practice through analysis, theory, discussion and personal response. Extensively illustrated with black and white and colour photographs Anarchic Dance, provides a comprehensive investigation into Cowie and Aggiss’s collaborative partnership and demonstrates a range of exciting approaches through which dance performance can be engaged critically.
The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.
Marcus Jeffries thought that he had endured all the adversity that life could throw at him: an early childhood in a broken home; maturation in city gangs combined with drug dealing; an early life abandonment by his Mother and Father; numbers running in high school; turbulence of College life in the middle of the 1960s; baptism under fire in Vietnam; involvement in military drug dealing, and gun fights in Thailand. He had fallen in love with a New York City beauty while in College, and stayed alive because of her love and compassion. Writer Preston Hayward identifies the survival traits developed by Marcus and reveals his affection for Trudy as he weaved his way through a troubled existence. However, his past drug acquaintance become problematic; and he is compelled to revert to a life of undesirable crime.
First published in 1987. This book began in Bali during 1970–72, during the author’s Ph.D. research on the shadow theatre for the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. However, two subsequent trips to Bali in 1980 and 1984, when I studied other forms of dance-drama and ritual, greatly contributed to the work. The shadow theatre in Bali is described and its place in the society and culture explored. It is so called, as during the night performance puppets cast vibrant shadows against a white cotton screen which is illuminated by a flickering coconut-oil lamp.
Ruth White provides a clear and practical guide, free of any religious or doctrinal influence, a useful definition of karma, she delves into the Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian views of karma, offering a straightforward discussion of its meaning in each tradition. Through exercises, meditations, and case studies, White guides the seeker through an exploration of how karma aids us in our evolutionary journey to enlightenment.
In this personal account, one man details how he discovered the fact of reincarnation and explores what he did in his prior lives. More people than you would believe have prior life memories. In his new spiritual memoir "My Journey down the Reincarnation Highway: The True Story of a Man who found nine of His Past Lives" author and businessman Frank Mares tells how he acquired psychic ability in his middle age. With this new gift, he recovered facts about nine of his prior lives, most of which involved violent, bloody deaths. The most recent life was that of a young German Wehrmacht sergeant who was ambushed and killed by Russians during the night of May 1, 1944 in a dark Estonian farmhouse. Not being satisfied with just discovering his past lives, Mares goes on a spiritual mission to find out why he kept dying violently. The answers do not come easily, but by using a team of three world class psychics he eventually tracks down the shocking reason for all his brutal deaths. The psychic team finds that within the soul of this normal small businessman resides a brutal, stone cold killer from the 1600's who surprisingly was the revered founder of a gentile noble family.As part of his soul's continuing quest for redemption, Mares hopes to salvage the dark time in his soul's past into something that could help others today. His experiences show that death is only a transition phase, and that it should not be feared. His book also reveals that reincarnation is actually a well designed, organized system that allows souls to learn personalized life lessons over a surprising number of lives. If you read this book, you will never look at life (and death) in the same way again.
Good grief. It seems that life at school won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Dark clouds loom on the horizon, and I don’t just mean my favorite bookstore closing down. With the school festival right around the corner, I apparently have to find a dance partner and even help with preparations for my class’s contribution. Sure, Chronos might be behaving themselves for the time being, but I can’t shake this feeling that some other organization is going to make their move. My dreams of a peaceful life just get further and further away.
The epic journey has reached its conclusion, but plenty of stories are left to tell for the Jobless Reincarnation cast! Return to the Six-Faced World with this special collection of new adventures while catching up with your favorite characters. This treasure trove of Mushoku Tensei works includes: The history of Mushoku Tensei The life chronology of Rudeus Greyrat "Message of Congratulations," a special manga from various artists Four brand-new short stories Special featured story written by Rifujin na Magonote Exclusive long-form interview Experience the spoils of an epic journey!
High-ranking demons have raided the Steel King's country to revive one of the Demon King's six sealed body parts! Eva and her underlings are doing their best to hold them back, but what they need is Ryu. These demons would be no match for Ryu and her newly crafted magic sword. But will she get there in time?