“This Very Moment is a poetic and intimate evocation of Dilley’s path as an artist and as a human being. In her book, Barbara finds a way to translate choreography onto the printed page, taking an array of memoir segments, photographs, classroom exercises, and meditative insights and have them dance together in delightful and rhythmic harmony. In this word-picture dance, she depicts her journey from early ballet training to the avant-garde world where she worked with Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and other leading figures. She shows how she came to teach dance at Naropa University, meet her teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and learn about meditation and Buddhism. Eventually, Barbara reached a point where the boundaries between life, practice, and art dissolve, and from this point Dilley offers us this remarkable book – in this very moment.”