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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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" 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. "

Twyla Tharp

Dance

Stand

Stand Up

" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

" Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. "

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

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

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

" It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' "

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

Twyla Tharp

Makes

My Own

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "

" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "

" Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. "

Twyla Tharp

Nothing

Way

" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

" 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. "

" These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Twyla Tharp

Little

Education

" '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. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. "

" I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. "

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

" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "

Twyla Tharp

Kid

Just

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "