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Sto caricando le informazioni... Finding My Dance (originale 2022; edizione 2022)di Ria Thundercloud (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaFinding My Dance di Ria Thundercloud (Author) (2022)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. At four years old, Ria was brought into the powwow circle - of the Ho-Chunk nation, proudly wearing the special jingle dress made by her mother. She performed with her brothers all over Indian country. Then she learned dance styles like tap, jazz, and ballet - but sometimes she felt like an outsider. At school, she was the only indigenous girl in her class. As a professional dancer, Ria traveled the world. Now she has returned to her homelands and proudly works to reclaim stories of Indigenous women. Gr 3–5—"Beautiful Thunder Woman" chronicles her career, beginning with a jingle dress her mother made for her. With so little on this subject available outside of Indigenous communities, and even less written down, this is a compelling volume of a life and the importance of self-expression, as well as the protection of custom. Arenowned Indigenous dancer tells her story. At 4 years old, author Thundercloud, of the Ho-Chunk Nation and Sandia Pueblo, received her first jingle dress—an intricate, hand-sewn garment worn by Indigenous dancers. When she performed for the first time at a powwow, her spirit soared. This feeling never left Thundercloud, and as she grew up, she began dancing in the Native “fancy shawl” tradition as well as in contemporary, jazz, tap, ballet, and modern styles. Despite her meteoric rise in numerous dance communities (which eventually led to her becoming an internationally renowned professional dancer), Thundercloud was a “shy” kid who “didn’t fit in.” She was perpetually “the only Indigenous girl in class,” no one pronounced her name—Wakąja haja pįįwįga, or “Beautiful Thunder Woman”—correctly, and the timid girl “never corrected them.” As Thundercloud reached adulthood, she found strength through her ancestral dance and the birth of her daughter. Empowered by her heritage, Thundercloud now corrects those who mispronounce her daughter Yelihwaha•wíhta’s name (“She Brings Good Energy”), lifting up “a language that still exists, and a culture that we still honor, despite many attempts to wipe it out forever.” Accompanied by Fuller’s evocative illustrations that fill pages with bright colors and dynamic figures, Thundercloud’s rousing story of an uncertain child who grows to take pride in her identity will resonate with readers. (This book was reviewed digitally.) A moving picture book about the resilience one can find in one’s cultural inheritance. (Picture-book autobiography. 5-10) -Kirkus Review A nice autobiography about a dancer from the Ho-Chunk Nation and Sandia Pueblos. She does the dances traditional to her people as well as ballet and modern styles. The text is of the role-model variety that is reserved and dry, lacking a bit when compared to the spark visible in the lively pictures and the author's actual dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGDrr4z_e0w nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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