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 do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all. — 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 realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — 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
