In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. — 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
At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the… — 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
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. — 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
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
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough. — 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
