Creativity from Constraints in the Performing Arts

By Patricia D. Stokes Ph.D. and Patricia D. Stokes

This book was written to be useful. To be a tool for creators and performers.One tool is in your head. You will learn many new things.You will learn that creativity is a problem solving process. How creators and performers (in dance, improv, opera, jazz, musicals, drama, comedy, and circus) use paired constraints to solve their creativity problems. How one of each constraint pair precludes something in an existing style or solution. How the other provides a substitute to replace it. How constraint pairs cascade - one substitution suggesting another. How a series of substitutions becomes a solution path that replaces the old and defines the new.The other tool in your hands - you will learn how to make your tool box bigger. How to get past the gatekeepers. How to use paired constraints to start doing something new. How to use paired constraints to continue doing something new.Use your new tools.Use them to do something new.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692611991
• ISBN13: 9780692611999
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Patricia D. Stokes
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"