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Jun 5, 2008 7:28am
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SUMMER READING LIST FOR MOVING ARTISTS

Hi ....I received this from dance artist/educator Olive Prince our talented friend  from Philly...
Here is a list of inspiring titles that she and her friends have put together.

I wonder what you other dance enthusiasts   are reading this summer? Please share a title and a description. 

Hey, maybe we could start The Dance Enthusiast Book Club... 

Any hoo...

Here is Olive's letter and List...

I was looking for some summer inspiration and asked a bunch of people

for their favorite books about art, the creative process, or the life

of an artist.  I thought you all might be interested in the final

list.  So far, I've picked up a few and they are great!

One came in the mail today and the opening quote reads

"The Wu Li Masters know that 'science' and 'religion' are only dances,

and that those who follow them are dancers.  The dancers may claim to

follow 'truth' or claim to seek 'reality' but the Wu Li Masters know

better.  They know that the true love of all dancers is dancing." -

Gary Zukav (introduction to Ellen Glichrist's Falling Through Space).

Thank you to all that shared.  I hope you find some inspiration to make art!

Best, Olive Prince

Here's the list:

Summer Reading 2008

Chandralekha Woman Dance Resistance

by Rustom Bharucha

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

by Leonard Koren

Last Night on Earth

by Bill T. Jones

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of

Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler

Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air-

by Theodor Schwenk

Alma Guillermo Prieto, Samba

My Life: Isadora Duncan

by Isadora Duncan

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich

"Mumbo Jumbo"

by Ishmael Reed

"Crock of Gold"

by James Stephens

Born standing up

by Steve Martin,

The Knowing Body: The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance-

by Louise Steinman

The Saturated Self:  Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life

by Ken J. Gergen

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey:

FEAST OF LOVE

by Charles Baxter.

Something Like an Autobiography

by Akira Kurosawa

Henry Chapman Mercer and the Moravian Pottery and Tile

Works

by Cleota Reed

'Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion'

by Sondra Fraleigh's

'The Dancing Self'

by Carol Press

'Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began'

by  Ellen Dissanayake's

A biography of Eleanora Duse entitled "Eleanora Duse"

by Helen Sheehy.

Falling Through Space The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist,

 by Ellen Gilchrist

Angry Women a collection of essays written by 'cutting edge'

performance artists such as Bell Hooks, Annie Sprinkle, Carolee

Schneemann, etc

Enjoy!

--

Olive Prince

Dance Artist and Educator

Philadelphia, PA

oliveprincedance@gmail.com