Dancing Within the Song.Dancing Within The Song Shawn Shawn , Ted 1891-1972. American dancer and choreographer noted for his partnership with Ruth Saint Denis. Together they founded the Denishawn Dance School (1915), for which he choreographed works based on Native American themes. M. Davis PublishAmerica PO Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705-0151 1413729800 $19.95 www.publishamerica.com Dancing Within The Song is a coming-of-age novel, following fourteen-year-old Rashia. Raised on a communal farm that condones smoking marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. , among other questionable activities, her life abruptly a·brupt adj. 1. Unexpectedly sudden: an abrupt change in the weather. 2. Surprisingly curt; brusque: an abrupt answer made in anger. 3. changes when her father decides it is time to join the outside world. Rebelling against the sudden changes, she runs away back to her old life, now a harder and more dangerous world that has lost much of its original idealism idealism, the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as , unaware of the risks she is taking. A passionate story, not intended for a very young audience, as severe situations and mature language reflect terrible realities and choices. |
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