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
music
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
change constantly people time
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
direct
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
believe
If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
felt
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
abstract work
I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.
advantage anybody interested nor
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
hopelessly
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
trained
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
cartoons disney human master rorschach walt
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.
dancer exact inside time
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.
experience partners relationship
Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.
body bring depends information lost physically proust search time
Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language.