Twyla Tharp - Dance Quotes

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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 walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don't count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

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I have always felt one of the things dance should do — its business being so clearly physical — is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

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Dance is simply the refinement of human movement — walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.

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