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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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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.
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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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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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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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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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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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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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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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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’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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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.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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