Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“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.”

“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.”

“When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.”

“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.”

“I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'”

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

“What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.”

“Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.”

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

“Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.”