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Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Known
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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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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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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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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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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