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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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