040 - On Developing a Creative Habit [Book Review]

Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning · Feb 2, 2022 · 12m

The scene opens in an empty room with blank, white walls. A woman steps into the space, alone. "The blank space can be humbling," she writes. There's pressure to do something, to fill the emptiness, to create. But with practice and with the ritual of showing up, you grow accustomed to it. The author describes it as both her job and her calling."Bottom line," she writes, "Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.”This is how the book, The Creative Habit begins. Author Twyla Tharp is a choreographer and dancer, offering insight into her creative practice and the rituals that accompany…