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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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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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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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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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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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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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