The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
Interpretation
Ballet should convey its messages through movement alone, not requiring verbal explanation.
Twyla Tharp emphasizes the power of ballet as a form of storytelling that transcends spoken language. She believes that through its choreography and movement, ballet can communicate emotions and narratives directly to the audience, creating a universal connection that doesn't rely on words to be understood.
In practice
During a dance workshop to emphasize the importance of movement over words.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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