Il gioco libero della vita. Trovare la voce del cuore con l'improvvisazione

Tenía mucha curiosidad por leer este libro, que parece ser sobre improvisación, y algo de eso cubre, pero es más sobre creatividad. Tiene cosas muy lindas, porque conecta la creatividad, y el arte, con cosas profundas, que van más allá de nuestra conciencia. Me encantaría que lo leyera cualquier per Leggi tutto

The right book at the right time saves lives. Man, you can say that about Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. The thing about play in art, is it's a sign of strength to spare, wind to spare, like someone running a marathon who breaks out into a pirouette. Sometimes working on a long project, t Leggi tutto

Did not get interesting until the middle, where there were some concrete suggestions on how to play around with limits, the interplay between creativity and judgement. The beginning and the end of the book are weakest, in my opinion. They are filled with too much pseudo-spiritual riffs, or get off t Leggi tutto

During the late 1980s and early 1990s I worked in a bookstore that managed to survive the mega-chain onslaught and political shifts that killed off most of the independent literary stores and others such as the local specialist feminist and the Marxist/leftist book store as well as quite a few of th Leggi tutto

This is an interesting read on creativity and improvisation to come back to. I read it with pen in hand and highlighted the parts that spoke to me. If I reread, I feel like I might find other parts that capture me next time. Some parts of the book were too filled with spiritual flummery for my taste, Leggi tutto

Two names sum up my my review of this fantastic book: Keith Jarrett and Gregory Bateson ... well OK, and the fact that Nachmanovitch weaves together wisdom threads East and West, ancient and modern, in the arts and sciences to create this little masterwork on creativity. But if you know these two gia Leggi tutto

An essential read for anyone creative, and pairs well with The Artist’s Way; in fact, Nachmanovitch lays out some concepts around creativity much better than Julia Cameron does. Reading this is really helping me let go of music as a career so that I may regain it as a love and passion. It’s worth ju Leggi tutto

One of my favorite books. I've reread it several times, and referred to it often. An inspiring reminder of what it means to be awake to the moment and to receive its possibilities with gratitude and imagination.