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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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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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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.
Twyla Tharp
Art is an investigation.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp
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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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
Twyla Tharp
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
Twyla Tharp
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
Twyla Tharp
