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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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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 walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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 think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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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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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
Twyla Tharp
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
Twyla Tharp
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
Twyla Tharp
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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
Twyla Tharp
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
Twyla Tharp
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
Twyla Tharp
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp
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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