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Twyla Tharp

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

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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

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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 think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

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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.

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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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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.

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