American - Dancer | July 1, 1941 -
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
Twyla Tharp
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.
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The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.
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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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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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'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.
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If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
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My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
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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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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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