Creativity and aging: enhancing quality of life through the arts by Jenifer Milner

“Living a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith,” writes dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp in her book The Creative Habit. In a career spanning more than 40 years, the prolific artist has created more than 125 dances, authored 2 books, and worked in stage, film and television. Now 65, Tharp shows no signs of slowing down, much less retiring. Her 2002 excursion into Broadway—a show called “Movin Out”—won her the Tony Award for Best Choreography, and revealed a woman in full command of her creative powers.