Award winning dancer, choreographer and best-selling author Twyla
Tharp shares her secrets for maintaining mental and physical agility in
this groundbreaking, always entertaining book.
Forwardness is the new mindfulness. Now seventy-three, Twyla Tharp is
revered not only for the dances she creates for Broadway, the American
Ballet Theater, the New York City Ballet and others--but for her
astounding regimen of exercise and engagement. She is famed for
religiously hitting the gym at daybreak, undergoing rigorous exercises
with her trainer and utilizing those drills to propel her breakneck
schedule as a teacher, creator and lecturer.
In Forwardness, Tharp explores the variety of steps anyone can take to
forestall the aging process, and more important, to convince one's own
mind that it is truly only as old as it feels. Drawing on a variety of
physical techniques, mental acuity exercises and spiritual tricks of the
psyche, Forwardness will prove to be as innovative and novel as its
creator.