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
blessing secret limits
Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
passion littles use
Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
dance workout morning
I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
music heart thinking
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
movie art sex
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
dance challenges culture
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
gum half hours
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
dance art stepchild
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
creativity artist validation
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.
fun moving knowing
This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
dance art dancing
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
concentration
Concentrate: you can't have it all.
discipline habit daily-routines
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
laughter energy release
There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.