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“when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.”

Quote by Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp, born on July 1, 1941, is an outstanding American dancer, choreographer, and director. Her dance works are known for their unique style and innovative arrangements, which have had a profound impact on the development of modern dance. more

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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.”

Years Firsts Form Pages Notes Response Grants Application Establishment Assertiveness Handwritten Notes

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.”

Firsts Ends Dark Steps Creativity Creative Sight Busy Fearful First Steps Chaotic

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“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.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“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.”

Should Humans Art Running Form Imagination Movement Walking Art Is Dance Experts Jumping Refinement

Author:Twyla Tharp

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

Should Culture Felt Challenges Dance Gender Stereotype Gender Stereotypes

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“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.”

Art Common Movement Logic Dancing Dance Inevitability Egocentric Classical Art

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“Dance is the stepchild of the arts.”

Art Dance Stepchild

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.”

Children Forever Dance Dancer

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.”

Hours Half Minutes Ten Futility Gum Chewing Chewing Gum

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.”

Ifs Important Helping Community Effects Lucky Opposites Luck Fortune Generosity Generous Good Fortune Inviting Away From You

Author:Twyla Tharp