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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Think
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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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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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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