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 Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the… — 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
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
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
Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy… — 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
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. — 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
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill… — 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'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 also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I… — 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
“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 Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
