The creative habit learn it and use it for life : a practical guide /
Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, it is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. Here, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative i...
| Main Author: | Tharp, Twyla. |
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| Other Authors: | Reiter, Mark. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2003]
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| Physical Description: |
vii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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| Summary: |
Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, it is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. Here, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative impulses you follow--whether you are a painter, composer, writer, director, choreographer, or, for that matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see the world anew. When Tharp is at a creative dead end, she relies on a lifetime of exercises to help her get out of the rut, and The Creative Habit contains more than thirty of them to ease the fears of anyone facing a blank beginning and to open the mind to new possibilities.--From publisher description. |
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I walk into a white room -- Rituals of preparation -- Your creative DNA -- Harness your memory -- Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box -- Scratching -- Accidents will happen -- Spine -- Skill -- Ruts and grooves -- An "A" in failure -- The long run. Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, it is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. Here, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative impulses you follow--whether you are a painter, composer, writer, director, choreographer, or, for that matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see the world anew. When Tharp is at a creative dead end, she relies on a lifetime of exercises to help her get out of the rut, and The Creative Habit contains more than thirty of them to ease the fears of anyone facing a blank beginning and to open the mind to new possibilities.--From publisher description. |
| Physical Description: |
vii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0743235266 9780743235266 9780743235273 0743235274 |