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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
— Twyla Tharp
Art is an investigation.
— Twyla Tharp
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
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We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
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I see dance as glue for a community.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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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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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
— Robert Gottlieb
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
— Twyla Tharp
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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Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.
— Twyla Tharp
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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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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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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The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
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Kids should be encouraged to compete.
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Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.
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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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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
— Twyla Tharp
When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
— Twyla Tharp
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
— Twyla Tharp
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
— Robert Gottlieb
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
— Robert Gottlieb
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
— Twyla Tharp
You either entertain an audience or you don't.
— Twyla Tharp
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
— Twyla Tharp
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
— Twyla Tharp
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
— Twyla Tharp
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical.
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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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There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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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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What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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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