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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.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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