Gifts
Here are a few open-door invitations into The Anatomy of Art—pages you can step into, whether or not the book is yet in your hands. You’ll find a taste of the different modes the book offers: a piece of professional guidance drawn from lived experience, a score to spark new material, and an embodiment exercise to bring you back into your body. Each one is designed to stand alone, but together they hint at the range of questions, tools, and provocations that weave through the book.
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Balancing Exertion and Renewal
Stuck in the middle of your project? This Professional Guidance excerpt from the Process chapter dives into the vulnerable, unglamorous center of making—when the first spark has faded, and the finish line is still invisible. It offers clear, compassionate strategies for navigating uncertainty, rekindling curiosity, and staying in motion without forcing answers too soon. Whether you’re choreographing, composing, writing, or building, this is a guide to moving through the fog with purpose and trust.
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Score: Making Space a Collaborator
Space isn’t just where art happens — it’s a living force that can shape meaning, tension, and connection. This free score offers six playful yet rigorous experiments to help you reimagine space as a collaborator in your creative work. Whether you’re moving, staging, or simply noticing, these prompts invite you to bend spatial “rules,” heighten focus through containment, and let proximity alone tell a story. Perfect for dancers, theatre-makers, or anyone ready to see space not as backdrop, but as an active partner in creation.
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Embodiment: Trusting What's There
What if your next piece didn’t need a plan — only your attention? This guided exploration asks you to move from instinct instead of invention, to begin before you’re ready, and to follow the first honest impulse that arrives. Through simple prompts and pauses, you’ll learn to notice the sparks already alive in your body and let them shape the work.
