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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Easy
Never
Life
Particularly
Dance
Everybody

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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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Art is an investigation.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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