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The Anatomy of Art: Unlocking the Creative Process for Theater and Dance

by Alexandra Beller

A working map for creative practice

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A working map for creative practice

Organized around twelve connected drivers—including time, space, relationship, meaning, and context and culture—this guide offers artists a framework for examining how performance takes shape. More than 1,000 questions, scores, and frameworks are designed for use in rehearsal, teaching, and performance, whether opened for a brief studio session or returned to across a longer project. Its scope spans dance, theatre, and performance, drawing on Alexandra Beller’s three decades of devised work in dance and theatre. Contributions from artists across three generations extend the book’s range of perspectives.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Dance, theatre, and performance artists seeking prompts for creative inquiry
  • Teachers and practitioners looking for adaptable tools for rehearsal or studio work
  • Artists developing projects of different scales

Themes

Creative processChoreography and performanceRehearsal and teachingArtistic inquiryContext and culture

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Book overview

The Anatomy of Art is a field guide for artists working in dance, theatre and performance.

Twelve interrelated drivers of the creative process - including Time, Space, Relationship, Meaning, and Context & Culture - form a working map for inquiry.

Through more than 1,000 questions, scores and frameworks, the book activates rehearsal, teaching and performance, keeping choice alive in the body.

The book draws on three decades of devised dance and theatre and supports creative work of any scale that calls for bravery, personal vision and rigorous inquiry. It can be opened anywhere and used for a few minutes in the studio or throughout the life of a project.

A preface by Marisa Tomei and short offerings from artists across three generations - including Bebe Miller, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Deborah Hay, Emanuel Gat, and others - add pressure, contrast and lived intelligence.

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