Twyla Tharp Quotes

• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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• A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

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• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn’t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

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• I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That’s a great gift.

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• There’s this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

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• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

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• I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

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• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it’s simply because I wasn’t that committed to geometry.

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• I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

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• Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

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• I don’t think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that’s where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

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• I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn’t mean I haven’t wanted it to be excellent.

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Birth:	1st July, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Choreographer, Dancer

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• 1910 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos
• 1956 - LaToya Jackson
• 1986 - Shwayze
• 1904 - Eugene Forsey

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• 1979 - Mary Pickford
• 1911 - William Gilbert
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