This is a handbook for working in the creative arts,
with an emphasis upon imagination and receptivity: to
our bodies, to our surroundings, our materials, and to
what we create. It will be of value to anyone interested
to explore their lives through an active engagement in
the arts. It puts particular emphasis upon the sensing,
feeling, moving body as a basis for any imaginative
activity. The book describes sources and strategies for
working within and between various forms of expression,
including: moving, making things with materials and
writing. It stresses the importance of intuitive,
instinctive ways of knowing, perceiving, and creating.
The book will be a useful resource for people studying
or teaching in the arts, or for anyone whose
professional life involves them in working creatively
with others: therapeutically, educationally, or in a
community context. The book is written to inspire rather
than to instruct, to be used in small amounts to
stimulate a working process, rather than to be read
through from cover to cover.The authors' previous book,
Body Space Image (now available again), was about
improvised movement, experimental performance, and
creating performance settings. This book turns to the
question of imagination in our lives and how this is
awakened and nourished through attention to the present,
feeling world of the body and to whatever appears as we
make. In this way we enter into the poetics of our
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