I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of preserving dance as a vital part of culture.
Twyla Tharp expresses a deep commitment to the art of dance, highlighting its significance not only for individual artists but also for society as a whole. She conveys that the loss of dance would be detrimental, indicating that this form of expression holds value beyond mere entertainment, as it enriches culture and the human experience.
In practice
During a speech at a dance festival, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of dance in our cultural heritage.
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.
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Someone once told me that the 'β¦Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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