By Tom Foremski

Twyla Tharp, the celebrated New York based dancer has a hot book that is making the rounds out here in Silicon Valley. The Creative Habit is her blueprint for how she primes the creative and inspirational pumps.

The popularity of her book represents something much larger. It is our search to be more productive, more creative, to become more inspired. Ms Tharp's techniques offer no shortcuts: "set up a routine" is the most valuable advice. At least for me.

Here is a recent video of my friend Andy Plesser in New York, dancing with Ms Tharp:

This is an impromptu dance created and directed by Twyla Tharp. Joining her is a complete amateur Andy Plesser, a 55-year old with no formal formal dance background but considerable enthusiam.

This was part of a taping session of several interviews about dance, video, creativity and the Internet done for Beet.TV, a videoblog about the online video revolution and it's implications for business and society.