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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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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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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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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.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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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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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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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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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
Twyla Tharp
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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