Shape and Momentum
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0168-4 (ISBN)
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A sequel to Hiking the Horizontal, Liz Lerman's Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion is a choreographic manifesto for living in motion—part memoir, part creative toolkit, part philosophical inquiry. Written in a series of essays, from single-paragraph meditations to expansive chapters, the book weaves together personal anecdotes, creative theory, and movement-based wisdom. Lerman draws on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to frame a central question: how do we hold both shape and momentum—form and change—at once? With insight and generosity, she explores creativity as a life practice, rooted in embodied knowledge and accessible to all. Witches from her decade-long project Wicked Bodies appear throughout as fierce, funny guides, helping readers stay curious and grounded. Essays are grouped in thematic sections—lived experience, kinship, rejection, reflection, and radical imagination—culminating in an "Atlas of Creative Tools®," a practical and poetic resource. Bridging dance, education, politics, and spiritual practice, Shape and Momentum offers tools for navigating instability and making a more relational world.
Epigraph
Dedication
Author's Note Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
Witches Can Read
Soft Skills: A Fool's Journey
PART ONE: LIVING AND EXPERIENCING
You Can Be the Narrator of My Story If Knowledge Inhabits Us (It's a Verb)
Big Story Little Story Father and the Military
Healing Wars: Two Stories
Identity, Death, and Expertise
You Cannot Reckon Without Addressing Shame Inviting Lived Experiences
Caretaking Old and New Moving Memory Future
PART TWO: SHAPE AND MOMENTUM: THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE IS A CHOREOGRAPHIC PUZZLE AND A THEORY OF CHANGE
What Makes a Witch a Witch Dots
Dwelling in Shape and Momentum
Four Case Studies: monuments, archiving, dementia and ritual changes School Stories
Changing the Shape of the Audience
An Ode to Relationship: the Long of It, the Beauty and Conjuring of Martha Wittman Choreographic Thinking in Times of Trouble
An Ode to a Rubber Band An Ode to Aboutness
Having a Mess Avoiding a Mess An Animal Proves Me Wrong
PART THREE: REJECTION AND REFLECTION
The Witch of Insomnia Help From Friends
27 Attempts
Reflection through Generations Persistence and Falling Stories
Nature of Rest and Unfinished Life of Work A Spell for Forgiveness
PART FOUR: THE ATLAS OF CREATIVE TOOLS®
Parados
Toolbox as Documentation What's in a Recipe?
Aphorisms as Tools
Books for Children and Young Adults Gimmick
The Students Think Theory is a Tool Thinking Grids a Favorite
How Tools Travel and Why the Journey Makes Them More Flexible Differences
A Scientist and a Poet Walk into an Atlas It's Like Breathing or the Tides
EPILOGUE
Gallery of Witches Three Spells
Seeking and Fixing Things in a Middle of a Soybean Field Acknowledgements
Appendix Citations
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 b&w halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8195-0168-9 / 0819501689 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8195-0168-4 / 9780819501684 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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