Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... This imagined fictional tale creates room for interpretation, and although the reader may not be interested in literary history, or even realize the reference to Vladimir Nabokov´s own life, he or she has the opportunity to dream off to the land where "the polite arts and pure science flourished" (kindle editio...

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The Bangarra Dance Theater is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organization founded in 1989 by African American arts administrator, Carole Johnson and is based at Walsh Bay in Sydney. ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world, they go back at least 50-65,000 years- indigenous groups used to and still do use dance as a way of celebrating special ceremonies, expressing their feelings and beliefs towards such as religion, stories and ancestral heroes. ...

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