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
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Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference?
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Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
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No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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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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As is my wont, I did my research. I listened to all the recordings and I read everything about Bob I could find.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
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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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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
I do at least 75 push-ups a day.
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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.