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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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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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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'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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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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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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 had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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