Giana is passionate for the arts and wishes to share that love to her students. As part of the dance team, she trained in the different dance styles of Hip Hop as well as Salsa. During this time, she was apart of their elite competition team as well as their acrobatic team. Alongside competing at dance competitions, she trained in ballet, acrobatics, tumbling, tap, jazz, lyrical and contemporary dance. Destinee was on the team for 3 years, and later became captain during her senior year of high school.
She trained in Jazz, Contemporary as well as Pom. Currently, Destinee, is part of the Stonehill Dance Team. Destinee is extremely excited for this opportunity and cannot wait to meet all the kids!
Growing up, she competed at many dance competitions, conventions, and discovered her love of teaching dance as a volunteer teaching assistant to young students at Funky Feet in her early teen years. Aug 03, John rated it liked it. Nat Hentoff writes or did in the Village Voice To self: first half totally enjoyable, 2nd half less so. Aug 09, Scputval rated it really liked it. Nat Hentoff was a bit of a 20th-century American free-speech hero, a Boston Jewish son of Russian immigrants who was bulled as a youth by the Irish-Catholic neighborhood thugs, but studious enough to rise above his modest roots to find a out way out through education.
A strong traditional liberal, he eventually became one of the country's most respected music critics: a champion of jazz and black American and roots music, a strong advocate for civil rights, and a staunch defender of true free sp Nat Hentoff was a bit of a 20th-century American free-speech hero, a Boston Jewish son of Russian immigrants who was bulled as a youth by the Irish-Catholic neighborhood thugs, but studious enough to rise above his modest roots to find a out way out through education.
A strong traditional liberal, he eventually became one of the country's most respected music critics: a champion of jazz and black American and roots music, a strong advocate for civil rights, and a staunch defender of true free speech.
He was the kind of ACLU member who believed that people could say whatever they wanted, or express themselves accordingly -- no matter how odious their positions -- and if Nazis or KKK members wanted to march through Jewish neighborhoods in Skokie, Illinois, or wherever, with proper police accompaniment to keep order, he defended their rights to do so, despite his Jewish upbringing and personal beliefs.
Tolerance, he believed, was part of the equation in democracy's messy marketplace of ideas, and in a world becoming more progressive, he trusted that the best ideas would win out. What was important was to be passionate and articulate enough to speak out, and fight the noble way. Hentoff believed in individual rights and freedoms, not group identity politics. Eventually, he had a falling out with the Left because its tactics and its principles became too narrow and too much like the fascistic Right-wingers he despised, and that's a process that continues apace after his death.
In it, he gives examples from both the Right and the Left of speech suppression and censorship. Hentoff criticized Democrats and Republicans with equal gusto, and he remained firm to the end, so much so that he didn't have very many friends left on either side of the spectrum, but he was consistent, and, in my opinion, he was, on balance, correct.
This autobiography about his early years -- the s through roughly the mid '50s -- tells us how he came to develop his taste in the arts, his fascination with marginalized cultures, and his social conscience. One theme repeated throughout the book is Hentoff's idea that the music of the cantor, or hazzan or chazzan of the Jewish liturgy contains the same emotion and anguish as the feeling found in blues and jazz. The book is not badly written on a sentence-by-sentence basis but is, alas, ever-so-slightly dullish.
There are pages upon pages of dubiously interesting anecdotes about working at the candy store and attending the Boston Latin school and so forth, and it's not as interesting as he might have thought it was. I was frankly most interested in how he developed his political views and his love of music. There are interesting stories about his early investigative reporting of anti-Semitic hate groups, and of political and police corruption in Boston, along with his fledgling exposure to the jazz music scene.
Hentoff was no intellectual lightweight; he attended Harvard and then the Sorbonne on a Fullbright scholarship. One mark of shame on Hentoff's record -- one he owns up to and admits in the book -- is that he did offer names to an anti-Communist Senator during the fearsome times of the McCarthy witch hunts. Hentoff himself was an anti-Communist as much as he was an anti-fascist he didn't see much difference between totalitarian systems , but faltered here in the confusion.
Regardless of whether the names he named were already established ones on the lists in question, he knew he'd been complicit. Despite such illuminating moments, the book on the whole feels tangential and lacks flow and bounces around the time-line quite often, and I struggled to stay engaged with the narrative. The stories of his jazz encounters don't jibe well in the autobiographical mix and feel like they ought to constitute a separate book where they could be more fully developed.
There are some nice anecdotes about famous musicians he knew, such as Billie Holiday and Dave Brubeck, and these kept me from snoozing at times. The book feels a bit skeletal, like something he felt he had to get on the record, rather than something crafted into a scintillating story. Feb 18, Joyce Kozol rated it really liked it. A great memoir of a man who grew up in Boston in a time of blatant antisemitism.
Jun 02, Julia rated it liked it. Enjoyable memoir that made me think of my grandfather, but didn't pull me through. Mar 14, Rona rated it really liked it Shelves: daughters-book , memoir-biography. Nat just died. It brought me back to his memoir of his early years in Jewish, working-class Boston.
He wrote beautifully about many things not so beautiful. Feb 04, Ted rated it it was ok. I remembered him as a clear writer and thinker—a man of the left, certainly, but one who was generally thoughtful and articulate. Perhaps he could trace the cogency of his writing to his early education at Boston Latin School. One might find a delicious irony in a traditional pedagogy providing the tools for a fierce critic of the status quo.
If so, one gets little sense of anything that Hentoff took away from Boston Latin in this memoir of his childhood and youth. Some of the book describes what it was like to grow up in an insular Jewish neighborhood in the vehemently anti-Semitic Boston of the s and early s. Much of that is really fascinating.
Boston was a very different place then than it is now—far more provincial. Hentoff eventually became one of the notable writers about jazz, and then a prominent journalist on politics and civil rights, especially free speech. Jan 22, Mark Goddard rated it it was amazing. Antisemitism and Racism rages in the clubs and back alleys of the Back Bay. Fascinating book, Highly recommended Melissa rated it liked it Jun 13, From here one may assert that b-boying is a misnomer of some sort.
The musical and rhythmic structure of Bach is meticulously captured by the movements of seven b-boys along side their female opposite. What is most stunning with the performance is the striking slow motion of projection within the near middle frame of the program.
A surprise that is a welcoming one as audiences are treated to the privilege of seeing such a talented entity do his thing and for a unique show is a treat within itself. For those unfamiliar with Brahim, an introduction within a brief paragraph would do injustice.
The video below should be adequate enough to let one familiarize themselves with Brahim. In context of lighting and visuals, the work of Marco Moo should be awarded some genre of prestigious award without doubt. Timely projections are key; more specifically if a crowd would be losing its interest. From beginning to end it is rather difficult to even entertain the fact that one would lose interest within the entire sitting and pleasant viewing of the entire program.
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