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Dance Quotes by Twyla Tharp
- I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the…
- I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
- A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
- I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
- Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
- It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
- I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
- I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it…
- Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of…
- Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
- I do everything I know how in a dance.
- I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By…
- I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
- I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement…
- I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know…
- It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
- This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
- Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close…
- We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
- You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have…
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