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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
American Dancer
Born: Jul 1, 1941
Dance Me People Think Work You
Related authors: Alvin Ailey Dita Von Teese JoJo Siwa Katherine Dunham Martha Graham Merce Cunningham Mikhail Baryshnikov Misty Copeland
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. Twyla Tharp
Creativity Problem World Parents Looking Way Solve See One-Way More New Sale Close Than Trying New Way Just Artists Children Want Engineers Who Businesspeople
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp
Work Best Good Creativity Result Good Work Habit Habits
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. Twyla Tharp
Work You Fight Odds Sit Keep Moving Dig Corner Way Find Through Got Go Survive Going Just Hole Tunnel Against Moving To Survive Turn Your Keep
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. Twyla Tharp
Experience Old Degree Some More Optimism Than Behind Energizing Plain Much Certain Certain Degree Cynicism
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action. Twyla Tharp
Time Sense Action Every Films Saw Tell Silent Features Week Through Drive-In Learned Sound Snack Up Going Often Grew Stories Which Bar Theater Working Meant Four Watching
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. Twyla Tharp
Art Dance Most Art Forms Forms Fundamental
My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. Twyla Tharp
Me Dancers Deliver Because Expect Represents Choreography Livelihood
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. Twyla Tharp
Truth Lie Words Power Action Easily Obviously Which
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. Twyla Tharp
Myself Seen Had Always Wanted Galaxy Star
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. Twyla Tharp
Failure Ways Learned Ultimately Different Lessons Lessons Learned Different Ways Thing
I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.' Twyla Tharp
Myself You Sometimes Old Dance Insecurity Garbage Other Everybody Danced Say Promote Kinds About Wrong Wrong Reasons Days Well Because None How How Much Get Any Going Loved Old Days Much Used Reasons Professional Things
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. Twyla Tharp
Courage Dance Audacity Modern Modern Dance Want
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. Twyla Tharp
Find Hopelessly Aesthetic Century Barren
My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account. Twyla Tharp
Buy Time Old College Everybody Favorite Drive-In Taken Ticket Until Audience Years Account Accustomed Theater Worked Should
I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it. Twyla Tharp
Needs Culture Dance Stronger Feeling Important Our Out About More Understand Audience Always Important Thing Optimistic Goes Evening Believed Thing Need
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. Twyla Tharp
Me Mistakes Before Nothing Way Status Status Quo Something More Make Terrifying Doing Than Same Quo Really Keep
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. Twyla Tharp
People Walls Dance Beginning Think Insisted Between Ballet Lot Very Wall Modern Modern Dance Unhealthy Things
I do at least 75 push-ups a day. Twyla Tharp
Day Push-Ups Least
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. Twyla Tharp
Creativity Think Structure Scheduling Required
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. Twyla Tharp
You Pay Dedication Constantly Excellent Absolutely Ideal Performance Child Going Personally Turn Means Necessity
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. Twyla Tharp
Music Remember Mother Old Three Year Two-Year-Old Keyboard Relation Visualization Seeing Also Practiced Because How Sound Sound Of Music Year-Old Lot Movement Bodies Lessons Her Things Two
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. Twyla Tharp
Time Gift Father Extraordinary Harmony Virtuoso Background Melodic Only Piano Had He Along Well Became Doing His Lines Mozart Four By The Time
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. Twyla Tharp
You Dance Tennis Like Sport Content Boxing Materials Up Itself Thematic Stand Stand Up Baseball Play
A commission is an invitation to fall in love. Twyla Tharp
Love Fall Invitation Commission
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. Twyla Tharp
Relationship Experience Think Way Had Partners Doing Survive Going Where Unfortunately To Survive
I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. Twyla Tharp
Good Heart Long Think Dancers Dancing Examine Occasion However Realize Ask Worked Hard Standards Why
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