Twyla Tharp Quotes About Dancing

Quotes about: Dancing

• I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

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  Dance, Moving, Thinking

• I do everything I know how in a dance.

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  Dance, Dancing, Know How

• You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

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  Dance, Dancing, Splits

• 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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  Dance, Thinking, Dancing

• 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.

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  Mean, Dancing, Intimidating

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

• I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

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  Believe, Dancing, Movement

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

• The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

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  Dancing, Different, Rewards

• 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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  Children, Years, Dancing

• 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.

  Twyla Tharp

  Piano, Dancing, Training

• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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