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61) Balletball
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English
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Nini loves ballet, not sports, so when her mother signs her up to play baseball she sulks until the coach explains how baseball and ballet can go together--and when a timely plié in the outfield saves the game she realizes that "balletball" is really not so bad after all.
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The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric career, producing her iconic, Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born and expertly shaping her concert career. Previously unpublished, and only recently found, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells their story. Their romance lasted Judy's lifetime, despite the separations, the reconciliations,...
63) Stepping Out
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Laughter is fifteen-year-old Paige Larsson's currency in life. It takes the sting out of life's tough stuff. It eases the pain of nasty comments, agonizing moments in gym class, and awkward pauses at parties. She likes it, even more, when others laugh with her, so she's become a YouTube comedy vlogger.
Now Paige is about to step out of her comfort zone and compete-live and onstage-in the prestigious International Teens in Comedy festival. Winning...
64) Show Mode
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Adina has always wanted to be a part of the annual fashion show at her school for the arts. Now that she's finally in the ninth grade, she and her friends can audition. She knows their act could be perfect. They've got great music, gorgeous costumes, and wicked dance moves. But Willow is being her usual flaky self, and Sandra's getting touchy. Maybe even a bit mean. Luckily, Seth remains steady and reliable. Their biggest competition is the annoyingly...
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Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A remarkable tale of love and betrayal based on one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the Russian Empire. Brilliantly told by renowned playwright and poet July Kim with music composed by Roman Ignatyev (the same team behind Anna Karenina Musical and The Count of Monte Cristo), Filmed before a live audience from the Moscow Operetta Theatre.
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The #1 So, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't...
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In this soothing, gentle rhyming picture book, author Jennifer Adams bids sweet dreams to the youngest readers who identify as ballerinas by day and tender, sleepy children by night. With luminous art from illustrator Alea Marley, Goodnight, Little Dancer is sure to send little ones to sleep with twirling, dancing dreams.
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Take a riverboat ride back to 1800s America and learn how Mark Twain's world influenced his writing. This nonfiction text breathes life into the pages of history, and gives students a sense of what life was like in Mark Twain's time. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this biography includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars, fascinating images, and detailed...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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THE CIRCUS brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town, its stars were among the most famous people in the country, and multitudes gathered to see the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular.
70) Bruk Out
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Bruk Out! looks deep inside the raw, energetic world of Jamaican Dancehall culture through the eyes of the powerful women at its heart – Dancehall Queens. Often criticized as lewd and aggressively sexual, these daring performers turned Jamaican street dance into a massive global phenomenon. Bruk Out! follows six of the boldest and bravest Dancehall Queens from around the world—Japan, Italy, America, Poland, Spain, and of course, Jamaica—as they...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (225 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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THE CIRCUS explores the history of this popular and American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time.
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Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1973.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In the fall of 1973 we had an opportunity to visit Jean Dubuffet in his studio while he was at work on a detail for his musical theater piece Coucou Bazar. The production, which Dubuffet saw as an animated painting, featured performers in costumes resembling figures in his paintings and sculptures. The piece had a successful premiere at New York’s Guggenheim earlier that year, alongside a retrospective of Dubuffet’s previous works, and later would...
74) Wandering Souls
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Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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WANDERING SOULS follows the mounting of a new stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, to honour the nearly 2 million Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. Commissioned by Cambodian Living Arts, the Requiem is a first-time collaboration between filmmaker Rithy Panh and composer Dr. Him Sophy. The film tracks the story of the Cambodian creators and musicians, as they work with an international team to bring...
Publisher
Questar Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING follows a group of at-risk teenagers as they learn about improv comedy through an after school arts program in Chicago, Illinois. They succeed and struggle during the summer program that culminates in a show.
76) Dare to Drum
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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DARE TO DRUM tells the story of rock star composer Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, teaming up with D’Drum, a Texas-based world percussion group, and Maestro Jaap van Zweden with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to create groundbreaking work, both on and off the screen. In 2011, after three years of composing, rehearsals, recording sessions, and trips to Bali and Java, "Gamelan D'Drum" - a musical synthesis of pitch, rhythm, and orchestration...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied under Moni Yakim at Juilliard, America's greatest performing arts school. With interviews with Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Kline, this compelling portrait of the master teacher-the sole remaining founder of the school's legendary Drama Division-takes us inside the drama classes where Moni and...
78) Standing Up
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Three unlikely aspiring stand-up comedians – an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couchsurfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer – risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene. Official Selection at **DOC NYC**.
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Like the haggadah, the traditional “telling” of the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers who made and continue to make the decisions as to which films are produced, the complex and evolving nature of
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