Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.
Interpretation
Dance expresses thoughts and emotions through physical movement, similar to the way film conveys narratives visually.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp highlights the powerful connection between dance and film, suggesting that both art forms serve as mediums for storytelling and emotional expression. Just as a film can convey complex ideas through images and sequences, dance can embody thoughts and feelings through movement, allowing both the performer and the audience to experience a profound connection that transcends words.
In practice
A dance performance in a theater that illustrates the themes of love and conflict.
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.
What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it.
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end._x000D_ _x000D_ Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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