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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Imagine
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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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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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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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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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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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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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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