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Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Art is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
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 also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
Twyla Tharp
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
Twyla Tharp
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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
Twyla Tharp
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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.
Twyla Tharp
I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
Twyla Tharp
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
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