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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Release
Laughter
Energy
Comes
Tension

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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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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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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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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 often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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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 think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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