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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Art is an investigation.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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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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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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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.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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