Can art heal the caregiver?
The answer is a resounding yes – and The Choreography of Care shows us how. Based on the thousands of transformative experiences witnessed, performed, and captured at Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre company over the past three decades, founder Stuart Pimsler relays countless creative strategies—from movement and voicework to writing and improv—designed to activate authentic healing for a host of professional caregivers, in both home and work environments.
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Stuart Pimsler is a dynamic writer, director, choreographer, and performer, and the founder of Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT). Alongside artistic co-director Suzanne Costello, he has earned international acclaim for over thirty years of pioneering work at the intersection of arts and health. Stuart has created more than fifty original performance pieces, authored the children’s play My Grandmother’s Tsotchkes, and recently transformed the short story MATINEE into a groundbreaking interdisciplinary stage work. His distinguished career includes fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, and Ohio Arts Council, as wellas commissions worldwide. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.
Stuart Pimsler’s touching book illuminates the transformative, healing power of art. The Choreography of Care offers poignant revelations about the theater of healthcare…fresh approaches for artists as they engage with their communities. The work of Stuart Pimsler and Suzanne Costello asks all of us…how do we consider the role of art in our daily lives?
James Lapine, playwright and director, has won the Tony Award three times for Best Book of a Musical—for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. In 1985, Mr. Lapine received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
With writing as fluid and lyrical as dance, The Choreography of Care glides the reader through the personal journey of an artist whose work found unexpected purpose in caring for caregivers. In this captivating and poignant memoir, Stuart Pimsler demonstrates his prowess as a compelling interdisciplinary maker—weaving autobiography, insight and meaning on the page as he has on the stage for four decades.
Jill Sonke is director of Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida College of the Arts, and assistant director of Shands Arts in Medicine
Drawing on his life as a dancer and choreographer…Pimsler guides his reader through the revelatory and healing powers the arts bring to medicine
Siri Hustvedt, PhD. Lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Author of The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.
Reading The Choreography of Care is like sitting in SPDT’s own magic circle…Stuart leads us through decades of partnering with caregivers to reveal the connection between creative expression and healing…an visceral look at how we might access our full potential through creative expression. The future of healthcare and healing lies within these pages.
Liz Engelman is the director of Tofte Lake Center and works nationally as a dramaturg on the development of new work.
Stuart Pimsler…readers insight into how movement, storytelling, visual art, and writing can charge the space between healer and patient…Philosophers have interrogated the mind-body problem for centuries. Pimsler takes it into the realm of a fluid interplay between the two, and how that dynamism translates to healing.
Linda Shapiro is a choreographer, dance critic and fiction writer.
$24.95 paperback
9781990137167
epub: 9781990137556
6 x 9 | 125 pages
