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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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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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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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