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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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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Dance
Anybody
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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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 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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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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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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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