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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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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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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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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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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 great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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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'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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