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The Collaborative Habit
Twyla Tharp
Life Lessons For Working Together
Simon & Schuster
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
160 pages
ISBN: 1416576509
EAN: 9781416576501
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer
Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians,
designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred
companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared
achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts
fizzle. Her professional life has been -- and continues to
be -- one collaboration after another.In this practical
sequel to her national bestseller The Creative Habit, Tharp
explains why collaboration is important to her -- and can be
for you. She shows how to recognize good candidates for
partnership and how to build one successfully, and analyzes
dysfunctional collaborations. And although this isn't a book
that promises to help you deepen your romantic life, she
suggests that the lessons you learn by working together
professionally can help you in your personal
relationships.These lessons about planning, listening,
organizing, troubleshooting, and using your talents and
those of your coworkers to the fullest are not limited to
the arts; they are the building blocks of working with
others, like if you're stuck in a 9-to-5 job and have an
unhelpful boss.Tharp sees collaboration as a daily practice,
and her book is rich in examples from her career. Starting
as a twelve-year-old teaching dance to her brothers in a
small town in California and moving through her work as a
fledgling choreographer in New York, she learns lessons that
have enriched her collaborations with Billy Joel, Jerome
Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello,
David Byrne, Richard Avedon, Milos Forman, Norma Kamali, and
Frank Sinatra.Among the surprising and inspiring points
Tharp makes in The Collaborative Habit:-Nothing forces
change more dramatically than a new partnership.-In a good
collaboration, differences between partners mean that one
plus one will always equal more than two. A good
collaborator is easier to find than a good friend. If you've
got a true friendship, you want to protect that. To work
together is to risk it.-Everyone who uses e-mail is a
virtual collaborator.-Getting involved with your
collaborator's problems may distract you from your own, but
it usually leads to disaster.-When you have history, you
have ghosts. If you're returning to an old collaboration,
begin at the beginning. No evocation of old problems and old
solutions.-Tharp's conclusion: What we can learn about
working creatively and in harmony can trans- form our lives,
and our world.
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