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Twyla Tharp
American
Dancer
Born:
Jul 1
,
1941
Dance
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
Twyla Tharp
Education
Good
Discipline
Luck
Everyone
Simply
Talent
Question
Lot
Fortune
Good Fortune
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.
Twyla Tharp
Time
Difficult
Imagination
Components
Had
Because
Ballets
Tradition
Romantic
Modernism
Century
Many
Difficult Time
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'
Twyla Tharp
You
Learning
People
Matter
Seriously
Thought
Thinking
Dancing
Rules
About
Laws
Know
Learned
Narrative
How
Ballet
Theater
Who
Started
Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference?
Twyla Tharp
Work
Best
Investors
Come
Opposed
Dollars
Difference
Wherever
Taxpayers
Working
Actual
There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
Twyla Tharp
Good
Me
Dimension
Moral
Any
Anything
I do not watch television, never have.
Twyla Tharp
Television
Never
Watch
I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.
Twyla Tharp
World
Strong
Gorgeous
Dancers
Willing
Must
Clear
Open-Minded
Know
Look
Also
Forget
Anything
Personalities
Themselves
Who
Technique
Image
It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.
Twyla Tharp
Work
Myself
Important
Physically
Very
Hard
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp
Love
Art
Best
You
Must
Constant
Uncertainty
Maintenance
Perhaps
Love You
Really
Speaking
Include
Element
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
Twyla Tharp
Work
Alone
You
Creative
People
Other
Collaborative
Solitary
About
Habit
Obviously
How
Survive
Surviving
Artist
Basically
If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
Twyla Tharp
Myself
Believe
Dancer
Choreograph
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.
Twyla Tharp
Success
Me
Doors
Point
Open
Drives
New
Piece
Does
Ultimate
Next
It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'
Twyla Tharp
Me
Man
Theatre
Money
Organization
Will
Own
Difficult
Other
Hey
Say
Give
My Own
Sponsors
She
Well
Because
Ballet
Doing
Very
Working
Companies
Fund
Raising
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
Twyla Tharp
Books
Guys
Read
Learned
Dickens
Craft
Tolstoy
Novels
Letters
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
Twyla Tharp
Relationship
Women
Complicated
Think
Unbelievably
Had
Tolstoy
I see dance as glue for a community.
Twyla Tharp
Dance
Community
See
Glue
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
Twyla Tharp
Music
Run
Record
About
Fingers
Record Stores
Over
Over It
Sort
Go
Just
Stores
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.
Twyla Tharp
Me
Difficult
Films
Way
Would
Direct
Put
Unsuccessful
Like
Very
Successful
Film
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
Twyla Tharp
Work
Alone
Best
You
People
Collaborations
Find
Know
Always
Leave
Doing
Them
Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
Twyla Tharp
Work
Travel
Gift
Melodic
Arguably
Never
Had
Developed
He
Support
Schubert
Got
Very
Same
Grew
Anywhere
Mozart
Body
Less
Even
Exposure
Profound
Early
Kids should be encouraged to compete.
Twyla Tharp
Kids
Encouraged
Should
Compete
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