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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Children
Dancers
Encouraged
Dancer
Allowed
Indeed
Remain
Dance
Forever

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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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