Featured in this volume is a collection of essays by Liz Lerman, a Covenant Foundation grantee, titled Hiking the Horizonal. In her book, Lerman “reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us." Also featured is The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, a book by choreographer, dancer and author Twyla Tharp, in which she offers exercises aimed at generating creativity and helping readers harness their best ideas.

Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer

By Liz Lerman 

In this collection of essays, Liz Lerman, a Covenant Foundation grantee, “reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art," Lerman here combines broad outlooks on culture and society with practical applications and accessible stories. Her expansive scope encompasses the craft, structure, and inspiration that bring theatrical works to life as well as the applications of art in fields as diverse as faith, aging, particle physics, and human rights law. Offering readers a gentle manifesto describing methods that bring a horizontal focus to bear on a hierarchical world, this is the perfect book for anyone curious about the possible role for art in politics, science, community, motherhood, and the media.”

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

By Twyla Tharp

In this book, Tharp offers 32 exercises aimed at generating creativity and helping readers harness their best ideas. “In ‘Where's Your Pencil?’ Tharp reminds you to observe the world—and get it down on paper. In ‘Coins and Chaos,’ she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight…Tharp leads readers through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves….” (from Amazon.com)