American - Dancer | July 1, 1941 -
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
Twyla Tharp
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
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Art is an investigation.
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Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
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This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
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Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
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When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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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.
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I see dance as glue for a community.
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