Certainly, he had a gift that set him apart from others. That’s the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose.
I’ve worked long enough and produced with sufficient consistency that by now I find not only challenge and trepidation but peace as well as promise in the empty white room. I’ve created and directed a hit show on Broadway. I’ve run my own company for three decades. I’ve worked with dancers in the opera houses of London, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney, and Berlin. I’ve staged sequences for horses in New York City’s Central Park for the film Hair. I’ve spent eight months on a film set in Prague, choreographing the dances and directing the opera sequences for Milos Forman’s Amadeus. I’ve rehearsed in hundreds of studios, some luxurious in their austerity and expansiveness, others filthy and gritty, with rodents literally racing around the edges of the room. I’ve worked with dancers in almost every space and environment you can imagine. Some of them are good, some less good (that’s an understatement-some were public humiliations). Over the last 35 years, I’ve created 130 dances and ballets. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin. Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day, " she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. In "Do a Verb, " she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Coins and Chaos, " she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world - and get it down on paper. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. One of the world's leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents-at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist's Way and Bird by Bird.
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