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You double your intensity with skill.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Double
Intensity
Skill
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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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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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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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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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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