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I Put a Spell on You : Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna, Hardback Book

I Put a Spell on You : Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna Hardback

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Women with pizzazz. Dances to shock and enchant. With heroines like Josephine Baker and Isadora Duncan, this was never going to be a conventional history.

Buonaventura's book is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl arrested for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and astonishing facts (the first geisha were men), as well as tender portrayals of dancers whose stage antics have earned them lasting fame.

The author takes us to Buenos Aires and the first immigrants dancing the tango; to Paris and the bawdy entertainers of the Moulin Rouge; to Chicago and New York, where struggling black Americans cakewalk, charleston and shimmy their long road from slavery.

She returns to the Middle East, and the Arabic dance that led to a life-long fascination with the dancing body.

On the way, she takes in Princess Diana, anorexia, transvestism and cosmetic surgery.

This is a book for anyone intrigued by the sublime, sexy and downright surreal ways we find to strut our stuff.

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