This is an inspirational handbook for working in the creative arts. It
emphasises the imagination, creativity and being receptive to our
bodies, surroundings, materials, and what we create. The authors draw
attention to the sensing, feeling, moving body as a basis for any
imaginative activity. But while A Widening Field does draw on the
authors' dance and movement background, it elaborates and extends their
work by drawing in creative writing and all kinds of creative work with
materials. The book stresses the importance of intuitive, instinctive
ways of knowing, perceiving and creating and describes sources and
strategies for working in and between various forms of expression,
including: moving, making things with materials, and writing. It is
designed to provoke and inspire rather than as an instruction manual.
Tufnell and Crickmay's previous book, 'Body Space Image', addressed
improvised movement, experimental performance and how to create
performance settings. 'A Widening Field' looks at the role of
imagination in our lives and how it is awakened and nourished through
attention to the present, the feeling world of the body, and whatever
appears as we make art.
