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
dream upside-down turns
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
courage
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
good
There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
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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.
believe
If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
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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.
century components imagination romantic time tradition
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
bob listened recordings
As is my wont, I did my research. I listened to all the recordings and I read everything about Bob I could find.
giving-up lesson-learned different
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
erosion interesting chance
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
dance running art
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
inspirational uncomfortable ability
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.