Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. Twyla Tharp dancergutmodern Change image and share on social
Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. Twyla Tharp broadwayexpectationshow Change image and share on social
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. Twyla Tharp architecturedancefeel Change image and share on social
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action. Twyla Tharp actionbardrive share on social
There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. Twyla Tharp dimensiongoodmoral Change image and share on social
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. Twyla Tharp absolutelychildconstantly Change image and share on social
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. Twyla Tharp childcompletedance share on social
A commission is an invitation to fall in love. Twyla Tharp commissionfallinvitation Change image and share on social
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. Twyla Tharp 19th20thballet share on social
