#dance

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

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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#beginning #between #dance #i #insisted

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

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

— Twyla Tharp

#dance #easy #everybody #knows #life

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

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

#been #better #children #completed #dances

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#dance #dance music #heads #man #music

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#churches #coming #dances #dates #dollar

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free. ↗

— Jackie French

#death #fear #life #death

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.' 'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.' 'But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!' 'I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady. ↗

— Dan Wells

#hilarious #humor #john-cleaver #mom #pictures