Best quotes by Twyla Tharp on Dance

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• ‟ I see dance as glue for a community.

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• ‟ Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

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• ‟ What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.'

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• ‟ I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

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• ‟ Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

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• ‟ Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

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• ‟ A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

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• ‟ I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

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