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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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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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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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 have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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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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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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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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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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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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