Taking a Professional Promotional Photograph: The Terpsichore Diaries, Part 2

There's a lot that goes into preparing for a dance performance. Everything that goes into making a show adds up to countless hours of rehearsals, choreography and refinement, not to mention the time it takes to design, construct and purchase materials for costumes, props and sets. But the work doesn't end there- there's a whole new realm to conquer: marketing and promotion. Press releases must be written and distributed, bios executed, promotional photographs taken and polished. Getting a single decent promotional photograph is often a job in itself. I had the perfect location in mind. Scouting for a the perfect photographic ...

Miss Lina’s Ballerinas: a book review

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Dance as Expression

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Trance Dance To Beat Winter Blues

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June and August

December 1, 2009 by admin
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Title: June and August
Author: Vivian Walsh
Ages: 4-8
Publisher: Abrams Books For Young Readers, 2009
ISBN: 978-0810984103

June and August meet one night by starlight and find they have stargazing as a common interest. The new friends plan to meet the next day, but fail to recognize each other in the daylight, until June begins to complain and August recognizes her voice. They realize that not only do they look completely different in the light, they are quite different animals with different ideas of how to have fun. This leads to sharing ideas and teaching one another new games, while helping each other along the way. The story comes full circle as they again gaze at stars from the mountaintop.

Written by Vivian Walsh and illustrated by Adam McCauley, June and August sweetly touches on a core truth of friendship: while there are parts of us that are the same, there are also areas where we differ from one another, which is shown as June cleverly points out, “Our shadows begin and end in the same way. It’s mostly in the middle that we’re different.” It is these differences that offer opportunities for learning and growth, if we allow them to.

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Grier Cooper is a California based children's writer, photographer, and dancer who has performed worldwide with the San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet, among others. She draws on over twenty years of experience as a dancer, teacher and performer to create both fiction and nonfiction tot inspire, educate and enrich the hearts and minds of her readers.
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