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Nachmanovitch tells it like it is in the most important book on improvisation I've yet seen. -- Keith Jarrett, pianist
Stephen Nachmanovitch has produced a celebration of human uniqueness. -- Norman Cousins, author of The Anatomy of an Illness
This is an unusually intense, packed, thought-through book on the most difficult subject in the world: mystic creativity. -- Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Would that Free Play found its way into every school, office, hospital, and factory. It is a most exciting book and a most important one. -- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
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Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated - how we can be liberated - to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice.
The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. It brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.
When we think improvisation, we tend to think first of improvised music or theater or dance; but beyond their own delights, such art forms are doors into an experience that constitutes the whole of everyday life. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Deep and satisfying,
By Ziji (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
A feel for the deep insides of creativity, no matter what path you walk in life. Life can be lived as art, and this book shows you how. Every page a blessing.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Passion Unveiled,
By james denson (Hempstead, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
Reading Free Play is a journey; and as such, it is not an easy one. That is its most enduring reward. When a good friend gave me the book to read in 1993, I doubted what I could possibly gain from it, since I considered myself hopelessly awkward compared to her. Through such a toxic prism, I couldn't make any sense of the book, much less embrace it. It read like one big abstraction, with no relevance to me or my life. After a month of fitful starts and stops, I returned the book to my friend in frustration.Something about it, though, made me buy my own copy in 1998. I started taking voice lessons for singing early last year, and am preparing for a major performance next week. Two weeks ago, I decided to take another stab at reading Free Play. In doing so, I found my key to appreciating the book, and relishing all it has to offer, from beginning to end. Although Nachmanovitch is a musician, he beautifully expands the idea of Improvisation to include any medium through which we express ourselves, and live. Some friendly advice: When sitting down to read this book, get rid of all negative thoughts and judgments about yourself. While reading it, think of all the things in life you love to do, regardless of how well you or others think you do them. Whoever you are, and whatever you do, this book will help you discover what creativity is, where it comes from, how we block it, and how we can make it sizzle. If you stick with Free Play, you will get to know what's possible when you conquer fear and self-doubt just long enough to do what you love, for its own sake and on your own terms. Stephen Nachmanovitch has written a labor of love, and encourages us to see and live our lives this way. For that, Free Play is a true classic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent Overview of a Fascinating Subject,
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This review is from: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
I am currently using sections from this book to teach a course in creativity. It is a superb overview of the subject; both motivational and rich in anecdote about the creative process of high-level artists and scientists. Great for breaking through any blocks you may have and extremely well written as well.
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