A Little Book Full of Big Ideas!

Cobb, Edith
The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
Dallas, TX: Spring Publications, 1993
This is a book to sit with and enjoy over a cup of coffee, or to excitedly sneak a few pages of on a crowded subway; it is a book to discuss with friends, and a book to feed your teaching. Part biography, part philosophy, [...]

I Put a Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

Simone, Nina.
I Put a Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
New York: Da Capo Press. 1991
While there have been countless celebrated and extroadinary divas, something about the style, sound, and mere presence of Nina Simone remains unique. Perhaps a result of her turbulent life, her uncompromising personality, her distinctive voice and musical genius, or [...]

A Study in Contrasts

Jones, Bill T.
Elizabeth Zimmer and Susan Quasha, eds.
Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989
Dance is often a study in contrasts: finding rhythm in silence, movement defined by stillness, the literal body creating an abstract narrative. The book Body Against Body: The Dance [...]

Last Night on Earth

Jones, Bill T.
Last Night on Earth
New York: Pantheon, 1995
I love Bill T. Jones.
I am dazzled by his technique, his vision, his personal power as it radiates through his regal demeanor. And his talking. I love to hear that man talk. Language pours out of him as words and movement, making literal the phrase “poetic [...]