The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

What makes someone creative? How does someone face the empty page, the empty stage and making something where nothing existed before? Not just a dilemma for the artist, it is something everyone faces everyday. What will I cook that isn't boring? How can I make that memo persuasive? What sales pitch will increase the order, get me the job, lock in that bonus? These too, are creative acts, and they all share a common need: proper preparation. For Twyla Tharp, creativity is no mystery; it's the product of hard work and preparation, of knowing one's aims and one's subject, of learning from approaches taken in the past. It's a process undertaken every day. It's a habit. The Creative Habit is not merely a look inside the mind of a remarkable woman with remarkable skills, but a programmatic, inspiring, encouraging guide to help each of us achieve our fullest creative potential.

Twyla Tharp, one of America's most celebrated choreographers, began her career in 1965 and has since developed over 130 works for the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Ballet of London, the Royal Ballet of Denmark, and the American Ballet Theatre. She earned two Emmy Awards for Tharp's Baryshnikov on television and a Tony Award for Movin' Out on Broadway. She was admitted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993 and made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997 after receiving a MacArthur Fellowship. She is the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees, the most recent of which came from Harvard University. She is based in New York City and works there.

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ISBN 13	9780743235273
ISBN 10	0743235274
Title	The Creative Habit
Author	Twyla Tharp
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2006-01-01
Number of pages	256
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