Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharpis an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966, she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often utilizes classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth1 July 1941
CityPortland, IN
CountryUnited States of America
passion littles use
Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
practice perfect practice-makes-perfect
Perfect practice makes perfect.
believe dancing movement
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
dancer modern should
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..
failing
The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
skills intensity
You double your intensity with skill.
creativity crafts kidding-yourself
You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
eye skills ideas
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.
tolerance luck embrace
To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
action impulse improvising
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
ideas two littles
You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
memories ancient wells
Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
dance easy easy-life
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
soul emotion comedy
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.