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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Work
Never
Studied
Important

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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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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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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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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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