Produce Yourself by Ann Marie DeAngelo

Produce Yourself! is Ann Marie DeAngelo’s empowering and richly layered presentation that motivates readers to find ways to embody success. The reader takes a journey through a dancer’s process, learning the physicality of imagination, and illuminating the art of possibility. “Dancers have presence and confidence. The difference between success and near-success is confidence.”

Produce Yourself! demonstrates that visualizing is not enough to realize goals. DeAngelo introduces the act of visceralizing, experiencing a desired outcome (as dancers do) through concentration and intense focus. The book includes simple moves and coaching exercises to engage readers in their own process. Stand Up! Be Still. Step Up! Be Connected. Move! Be in Action.

Ballet dancers allow and do simultaneously, conquering our greatest challenge, the mind. Creators and doers, they oscillate between the unseen and the seen. These instruments of the dance remind us that we too, are instruments for our own creative expression.