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
creativity may knows
Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
imagine knows
The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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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, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
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Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
best ditch
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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My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
age
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.