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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
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Love

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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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 was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Art is an investigation.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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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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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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