[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] Summer Reading and Inspiration

[Olive Prince]

SUMMER READING 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 at gmail.com