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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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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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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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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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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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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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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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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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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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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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