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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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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 notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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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 had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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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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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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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
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