Twyla Tharp

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dance #dancing #i #i think #modern

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#i do #known #my time #reader #time

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

— Twyla Tharp

#categories #dance #divides #either #i

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#breed #come #dancer #dancers #days

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#existing #judgment

The formal education that I received made little sense to me. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#formal #formal education #i #little #made

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#business #change #fear #i #makes

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#different #rewards #very

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#called #destroys #expression #good #kind

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

— Twyla Tharp

#democratically #done #honestly #i #i can