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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

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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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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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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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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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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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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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 requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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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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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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