Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
Interpretation
Dance is a basic form of expression that underlies all artistic endeavors.
This quote by Twyla Tharp emphasizes the idea that dance serves as a foundational element of artistic expression. It suggests that movement and rhythm are fundamental to creativity, transcending other art forms, and that through dance, artists can convey emotions and stories in a unique and powerful way.
In practice
Including this quote in a speech at a dance recital to highlight the importance of dance as an art form.
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.
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the eventβthat's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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