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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
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Indiana
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Anybody
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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.
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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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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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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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