When four young girls meet in dance class, it takes time for them to find a way--and a reason--to pull together as one, but Emily helps them realize that, just like a bag of jellybeans, they can be different and still go well together.
Explorer Giuseppe Giaweeni leaves Italy to look for China, but instead he finds Miami, the land of the dancing giants, and he decides to bring one of them back to Europe.
Chin Chiang has long dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance, but when the first day of the Year of the Dragon arrives and he is to dance with his grandfather, he is sure he will shame his family and bring bad luck to everyone.
When Jack Frost brings gray winter to a forest where it has always been summer, a young girl brings sunlight back by engaging Mr. Frost in a vigorous Bear Dance.
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
The patterns of social life and of tbhe attitude of the sexes for one another are dramatically reflected to the dances of our history: the tango, charleston, dance marathons, jitterbug and disco.
