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In the end all collaborations are love stories.

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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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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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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 think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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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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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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