A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Interpretation
Twyla Tharp suggests that artificial barriers between different forms of artistic expression can limit creativity and growth.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp challenges the notion of strict boundaries within the arts, specifically between modern dance and ballet. She implies that such divisions can be detrimental, preventing artists from exploring and merging different styles, ultimately leading to a richer, more innovative creative landscape. By advocating for the removal of these 'walls', Tharp calls for greater openness and collaboration in the arts.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of artistic collaboration, I would quote Tharp to illustrate my point.
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.
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.
Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
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