Editing Shakers (section)

===Works inspired by Shaker culture===
[[File:Shaker Pianist (1888) etching (16.99 x 11.75 cm) ) Los Angeles County Museum of Art II.tif|thumb|Félicien Rops, ''A Shaker Pianist'' (1888), etching (16.99 × 11.75 cm; 6{{frac|3|4}}" × 4{{frac|3|4}}"), Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]
For a Shaker Seminar held in Massachusetts in 1981, composer Roger Lee Hall wrote a pageant of original Shaker poetry and music titled, "The Humble Heart", featuring singing and dancing by "The New English Song and Daunce Companie".

Shaker lifestyle and tradition is celebrated in [[Arlene Hutton]]'s play ''[[As It Is In Heaven (play)|As It Is in Heaven]]'', which is a re-creation of a decisive time in the history of the Shakers. The play is written by Arlene Hutton, the pen name of actor/director Beth Lincks. Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

In the early 1960s, American folklorist Robin Evanchuk, after trips to Shaker communities including Sabbathday Lake, created a stage reproduction of a Shaker worship service.  It included both the a cappella songs and also the dance-like movements traditionally used in the Shaker worship service.   It was performed by the Westwind Dance Ensemble of Los Angeles, the AMAN Folk Ensemble of Los Angeles, and her own dance group, The Liberty Assembly.  Performances by the AMAN Folk Ensemble continued until at least 1989, when the Shaker service was included in a concert tour of the AMAN Folk Ensemble that included concerts in the American mid-west, east, and New York City.

[[Robert Newton Peck]]'s 1972 book, ''[[A Day No Pigs Would Die]]'', depicts a family that lives by the "Book of Shaker".  They are clearly not traditional Shakers, however, as they live in a family unit separate from others, strive for individual success, and have children.

Novelist [[John Fowles]] wrote in 1985 ''[[A Maggot]]'', a [[postmodern novel|postmodern]] historical novel culminating in the birth of Ann Lee, and describing early Shakers in England.

Janice Holt Giles depicted a Shaker Community in her novel "The Believers".

In 2004 the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Boston Camerata music director [[Joel Cohen (musician)|Joel Cohen]] created a live performance work with dance and music entitled "Borrowed Light". While all the music is Shaker song performed in a largely traditional manner, the dance intermingles only certain elements of Shaker practice and belief with Saarinen's original choreographic ideas, and with distinctive costumes and lighting. "Borrowed Light" has been given over 60 performances since 2004 in eight countries, recently (early 2008) in Australia and New Zealand, and most recently (2011) in France, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In addition to Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham and Tero Saarinen cited above, choreographers [[Twyla Tharp]] ("Sweet Fields", 1996) and [[Martha Clarke]] ("Angel Reapers", 2011) also set movement to Shaker hymns. Playwright [[Alfred Uhry]] collaborated with Martha Clarke on "Angel Reapers" and used Shaker texts as source material. The music of "Angel Reapers" was successfully and uniquely arranged by Music Director Arthur Solari.

In 2009, Toronto-based, American-born poet [[Damian Rogers]] released her first volume of poetry, ''Paper Radio''. The lifestyle and philosophy of the Shakers and their matriarch Ann Lee are recurring themes in her work.