Dancing With My Mortality
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Dancing to My Death
In the summer of 2018 Daniel O'Leary received the news that we alldread - a cancer diagnosis. As a priest, teacher, bestselling authorand retreat facilitator, it was a natural instinct for Daniel to journalhis thoughts and feelings during his cancer journey. Completed justbefore his death in January 2019, this book is an incredibly raw andcourageous account. It pulls no punches in terms of Daniel's strugglesto cope with his diagnosis, the challenges of cancer treatment and theemotional roller-coaster of facing his own death.The book reveals a soul in chaos. It has the extremes of a torn kitein a storm - it sweeps and swoops between hope and despair, throwscartwheels and steadies out, crashes with fear and continues with rawand real courage.During his fi nal illness Daniel found a great clarity about what isimportant in life. There is a tough honesty here: an honesty that canonly emerge when the circus of religious activities leaves town, andwhen people are encouraged to really explore what their Christianitymeans to them.
Dancing the Death Drill
Author: Fred Khumalo
language: en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date: 2017-02-06
‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do ... Brothers, we are drilling the death drill.’ – Reverend Isaac Wauchope Dyobha Paris, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant leaves two men dead and the restaurant staff baffled. Why did the head waiter, a man who’s been living in France for many years, lunge at his patrons with a knife? As the man awaits trial, a journalist hounds his long-time friend, hoping to expose the true story behind this unprecedented act of violence. Gradually, the extraordinary story of Pitso Motaung, a young South African who volunteered to serve with the Allies in the First World War, emerges. Through a tragic twist of fate, Pitso found himself on board the ss Mendi, a ship that sank off the Isle of Wight in February 1917. More than six hundred of his countrymen, mostly black soldiers, lost their lives in a catastrophe that official history largely forgot. One particularly cruel moment from that day will remain etched in Pitso’s mind, resurfacing decades later to devastating effect. Dancing the Death Drill recounts the life of Pitso Motaung. It is a personal and political tale that spans continents and generations, moving from the battlefields of the Boer War to the front lines in France and beyond. With a captivating blend of pathos and humour, Fred Khumalo brings to life a historical event, honouring both those who perished in the disaster and those who survived.
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983
Author: Tim Lawrence
language: en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date: 2016-09-15
As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.