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Twyla Tharp quotes about dance

American Dancer July 1, 1941

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Twyla Tharp quote: "Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody..."
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. Twyla Tharp
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp quote: "I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various..."
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. Twyla Tharp
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 as dancing. I think of it as moving. Twyla Tharp
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 thing. Twyla Tharp
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. Twyla Tharp
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
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. Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp quote: "The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. Twyla Tharp
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. Twyla Tharp

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