Forwardness: Next Year Is Your Best Year

Forwardness: Next Year Is Your Best Year

Product Description 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. About the Author Twyla Tharp is an American choreographer and dancer, who has choreographed more than 135 dances in the last fifty years. When Tharp was twenty-three years old, she started her own dance company; Tharp went on to choreograph for several other companies including the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, and the Paris Opera Ballet. She has choreographed numerous films, including Hair and Amadeus, and her work has steadily appeared on Broadway since 1980. She is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She lives in New York City and continues to choreograph and lecture around the world.