Stephanie Maher, endlessly improvisational, endlessly edgy, recently sponsored a new kind of movement exercise at her widely-regarded Stolzenhagen dance retreat: deconstructing and reconstructing books, especially books on contact, dance, and choreography.

Her own contribution to the output - Sorry, Bill... - tore apart her own correspondence around dance theory and (lovingly) one of the fundamentals of her choreographic education, only to reconstruct it all into a work of edgy improvisational collage. Stephanie's subtitle tells it all: - a project demanding practice and action...

...stephanie maher walks us through metaphysical reflections and an historical journey around the innovative making of life, love, art, and dance, for which Ponderosa has been accorded its much due international applause...

this book, widely illustrated with multi-layered photos by sandra weiser, sketches in some of the history of Ponderosa, but more importantly takes the reader through a number of visionary meditations around art and art-making, eco-art and the environment, collective decision-making and behavior, as well as sustainability, the german countryside, and more......