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" 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. "

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp

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Power

" I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. "

" 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. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "

" Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. "

" A dancer's life is all about repetition. "

" The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. "

" In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. "

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' "

" Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound. "

" The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark. "

" 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. "

" I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. "

" The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. "

" The formal education that I received made little sense to me. "

Twyla Tharp

Little

Education

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

" Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. "

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

" Kids should be encouraged to compete. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. "

" No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them. "

" I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. "

" I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. "

" 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. "