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This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated-how we can be liberated-to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. It brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.
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When we think improvisation, we tend to think first of improvised music or theater or dance; but beyond their own delights, such art forms are doors into an experience that constitutes the whole of everyday life. Read the first page
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When we think improvisation, we tend to think first of improvised music or theater or dance; but beyond their own delights, such art forms are doors into an experience that constitutes the whole of everyday life. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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this book is a must read for any creatively motivated person, whom is looking for a deeper connection with themselves and what it is that they do.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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For me this book was an excellent reflective study on the arts. It goes into the human relationship with the suggestive muse and how from that we go about creating inspirational works.
The book itself is a work of art and is a pleasure to read.
The book itself is a work of art and is a pleasure to read.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch speaks from direct experience of the subject. A truly original and inspiring book bringing much needed light on the art of living and creating in the moment. For musicians and artists struggling to understand why they have rejected idiomatic approaches this is a gift.
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