My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Dance is a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
