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Title: Dancing Through Life
Subtitle: Lessons Learned on and off the Dance Floor
Author: Antoinette Benevento, Edwin Dodd
Narrator: Teri Clark Linden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing.
Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment, and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life.
Some of the tenets Antoinette Benevento lives, dances, and teaches by:
Building on the ballroom dancing craze that has swept the country, including the popularity of Dancing with the Stars, this illuminating and highly readable book shows that what you learn on the dance floor can help you dance through life.
Antoinette Benevento is co-owner of and national training director for the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and a former national ballroom dancing champion.
Edwin Dobb is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and has written for numerous other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Discover.
Members Reviews:
excellent read
I really enjoyed this book. It gave me a real insight to what a dancer goes through, both on the floor and in real life. I will use some of the quotations she has in the book as they pertain to me in certain ways. She is a very talented person,
and I wish we could have spent more time together when we were children. Love you Antoinette, your cousin Carol
Good book
I enjoyed this book. It does a nice job of encouraging the reader to evaluate his or her life and make changes that will be beneficial for the goals of that individual. I was disappointed that it did not use the metaphor of dance more than it did, but this was a minor disappointment because the author does use the metaphor, just not as much as I had hoped. Good book.
Not with this book!
Really tried with this book since it was a gift from a very thoughtful person. As a ballroom dancer, it initially peaked my interest.
The metaphor of dancing to real happiness in life is at best minimal.
The author bases her experience as a dancer, competitor and owner of a Fred Astaire franchise. Yes, we do observe personalities in our professions and we can sometimes see the forest thru the trees, but don't look to this book to find your path.