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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Writer
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Indiana
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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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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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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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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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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Art is an investigation.
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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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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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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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