Twyla Tharp Quotes
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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.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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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.
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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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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 think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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