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In the end all collaborations are love stories.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Collaborations
Collaboration
Ends
Stories
Love

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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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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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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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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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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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