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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Conformity
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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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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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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