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.
From Twyla Tharp
I do not watch television, never have.
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.
The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.
Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
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