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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
Twyla Tharp
You double your intensity with skill.
Twyla Tharp
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
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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
Twyla Tharp
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
Twyla Tharp
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
Twyla Tharp
When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
Twyla Tharp
Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
Twyla Tharp
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
Twyla Tharp
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Twyla Tharp
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
Twyla Tharp
I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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