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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
Reader
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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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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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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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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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