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People don’t realise how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X

touchstones

The vital part of any creative journey are clues along the way - some of these books are well worn classics for someone in the arts - others might be a reminder or a nudge in a new direction. 
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Theatre

Classic theatre texts that have been part of the journey and that cannot be recommended highly enough.
Theatre Book - A Widening Field
A Widening Field
Journeys in Body and Imagination 
by Miranda Tufnell & Chris Crickmay 
Recommended book: Body Space Image
​Body Space Image 
Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance
by Miranda Tufnell & Chris Crickmay  
Recommended book: Engineers of the Imagination
Engineers of Imagination:
Welfare State Handbook
by Baz Kershaw & Tony Coult 
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Recommended classic theatre text: The Empty Space
Classic text on roots of theatre: From Ritual to Theatre
20th Century Theatre:
A Sourcebook
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by Richard Drain
The Empty Space

by Peter Brook
From Ritual to Theatre:
The Human Seriousness of Play 

by Professor Victor Turner
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The Invisible Actor

by Yoshi Oida

Shifting Point 
Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87 (Biography & Autobiography)
by Peter Brook

Impro 
Improvisation & the Theatre
​by Keith Johnstone

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Towards a Poor Theatre 
by Jerzy Grotowski
True and False:
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor 
by David Mamet
Theatre & Its Double 
by Antonin Artaud
The surrealists were the high priests of the imagination and the unforeseen. 

Music

This could be a very long and varied list as, of course, music is so personal. However in the line of sharing culture that is about new ways of seeing, and in this case hearing, then these recommendations will come with that in mind. It may well be a list that takes some time to grow! It runs the risk of equally becoming a very long list or an empty section.   
Starting close to home: 

Estudios Sobre La Grilla Acústica - Libro I (2014) & II (2011)
FORMAT: 13 x 13cm
PAGES: 32
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: 2 audio CDs - Ensamble Nacional del Sur 

Texts, Notes & Drawings: Oscar Edelstein
Art Direction: Deborah Claire Procter
Design: Deborah Claire Procter & Gisela Formoso
First Edition - Printed in Argentina: Rolta, Buenos Aires (www.rolta.com.ar)
© 2014 Oscar Edelstein 
​© Patina Publisher, Amsterdam (www.patinapublishing.nl)

To find out where to order email us: info@clearinsight.co.uk
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Edgard Varèse:
Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary 
by Felix Meyer & Heidy Zimmermann
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Charles Ives Remembered:
An Oral History (Music in American Life)
by Vivian Perlis

Place

How to capture a sense of place is so vital to making cultural bridging points. 
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Bad Land:
An American Romance

​by Jonathan Raban

"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "
--Washington Post Book World
Land of My Father​:
2000 Years of Welsh History

by Gwynfor Evans

"...takes hold of their history in a human compass and with real power... --Gwyn Alf Williams


Songlines

by Bruce Chatwin

The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries

The Feminine 

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Women Who Run With The Wolves:
Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
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by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Her Blood
​is Gold:

Awakening to the Wisdom of Menstruation

by Lara Owen

Art

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Bobby Baker:
Redeeming Features of Daily Life 
by Bobby Baker
Anish Kapoor:
Turning the World Upside Down
by Julia Peyton-Jones & Hans Ulrich Obrist
Rebecca Horn:
10 Works / 20 Postcards 
by Rebecca Horn 

Film

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My Architect:
A Son's Journey
by Nathaniel Kahn
Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
[DVD]
Swimming To Cambodia
Spalding Gray (Actor, Writer), Jonathan Demme (Director) [DVD] 
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The Last Elvis ​
by Armando Bo (Director)
Wild Tales
​by Damián Szifrón (Director)

Literature: Latin American in English

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The Lost Steps 
by Alejo Carpentier
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Labyrinths:
Selected Stories and Other Writings 
by Jorge Luis Borges 



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    • CLEAR INSIGHT PRODUCTIONS
    • Deborah Claire Procter
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