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" Art is an investigation. "
Twyla Tharp
Investigation
Art
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" It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through. "
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" To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. "
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" 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. "
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" The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. "
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" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "
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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 work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to. "
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" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "
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" I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. "
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" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "
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Culture
" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "
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" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "
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" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "
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" You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. "
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" What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. "
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" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "
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" Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language. "
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