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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Life
Dead
Stop
Moving
Change
Things

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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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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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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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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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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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