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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.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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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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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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 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!
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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