{"title":"Twyla Tharp","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-collaborative-habit-life-lessons-for-working-together-paperback","title":"The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e- An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of collaborations, including working with a partner, with institutions and middlemen, outside your expertise, in a virtual partnership, with a friend, with someone who outranks you, plus how to deal with toxic collaborators, and much more.. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Examples from one of America's greatest collaborators: Twyla Tharp shows how she built successful collaborations with Jerome Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Milos Forman, and four generations of great dancers..","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377363517663,"sku":"9781416576518","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8YdXgXxrMh9781416576518.webp?v=1789233008"},{"product_id":"the-creative-habit-learn-it-and-use-it-for-life-paperback","title":"The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the world's leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, \u003ci\u003eMovin' Out\u003c\/i\u003e, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents--at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside \u003ci\u003eThe Artist's Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Habit\u003c\/i\u003e provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Where's Your Pencil?\" Tharp reminds you to observe the world--and get it down on paper. In \"Coins and Chaos,\" she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In \"Do a Verb,\" she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In \"Build a Bridge to the Next Day,\" she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTharp 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. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378991595743,"sku":"9780743235273","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iA0d56ren49780743235273.webp?v=1789264948"},{"product_id":"keep-it-moving-lessons-for-the-rest-of-your-life-paperback","title":"Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the world's legendary artists and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Habit\u003c\/i\u003e shares her secrets--from insight to action--for harnessing vitality, finding purpose as you age, and expanding one's possibilities over the course of a lifetime in her newest \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eKeep It Moving\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt seventy-eight, Twyla Tharp is revered not only for the dances she makes--but for her astounding regime of exercise and nonstop engagement. She is famed for religiously hitting the gym each morning at daybreak, and utilizing that energy to propel her breakneck schedule as a teacher, writer, creator, and lecturer. This book grew out of the question she was asked most frequently: \"How do you keep working?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep It Moving\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of no-nonsense mediations on how to live with purpose as time passes. From the details of how she stays motivated to the stages of her evolving fitness routine, Tharp models how fulfillment depends not on fortune--but on attitude, possible for anyone willing to try and keep trying. Culling anecdotes from Twyla's life and the lives of other luminaries, each chapter is accompanied by a small exercise that will help anyone develop a more hopeful and energetic approach to the everyday. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwyla will tell you what the beauty-fitness-wellness industry won't: chasing youth is a losing proposition. 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