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" What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. "

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Evening

Dance

" There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. "

" There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. "

" 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. "

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

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

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

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

Twyla Tharp

Little

Education

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

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. "

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I do at least 75 push-ups a day. "

" The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. "

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

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

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "

" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

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

" Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. "

" My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. "

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Expect

Dancers

" 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. "